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#442497 - Thu Oct 02 2008 01:57 AM Interesting Trivia
vendome Offline
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Some interesting trivia:

What is the longest word typed with only the left hand?

stewardesses

What is the longest word typed with just the right hand?

lollipop

No word in the English language rhymes with 'month', 'orange', 'silver' or 'purple'.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears keep growing.

There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious'.

'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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#442498 - Thu Oct 02 2008 04:07 AM Re: Interesting Trivia
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I would have to disagree with a few of these.

The words with the vowels in order could include botanical terms and chemical ones too,

eg;acheilous, anemious, caesious, annelidous, arsenious.They are as we would write them in English after all

The goldfish one, i believe is a myth.

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#442499 - Thu Oct 02 2008 10:35 AM Re: Interesting Trivia
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Long time no see Vendome -- glad to see you back.

I've seen numerous of this type of list before, and unless someone wants to take some serious time in researching the answers, I say they are all up for scrutinizing. I did a quick check on the goldfish thing and found this article from 2003 showing research and goldfish memories. However, it is from a newspaper,and I don't necessarily believe everything I read in a newspaper . So, take it or leave it, your choice.

I suppose when one googles one of the items and find over 15,000 hits just in question and answer forums it is definItely up for debate.
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#442500 - Thu Oct 02 2008 10:47 PM Re: Interesting Trivia
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Wow - the one about the line of Chinese people is making my head hurt.

Thank you, Vendome, for a different cause!
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#442501 - Fri Oct 03 2008 02:01 AM Re: Interesting Trivia
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I've got an interesting fact....

In computer speak, a "nibble" is half a byte - who said geeks were uninspiring???
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#442502 - Fri Oct 03 2008 05:32 AM Re: Interesting Trivia
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Welcome back Rich, long time no see.

Interesting facts.
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#442503 - Fri Jun 05 2009 04:11 PM Re: Interesting Trivia
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The guys on mythbusters tried an experiment by putting goldfish through a maze in a tank. They deduced that goldfish can learn and do not have a limited memory. I think people invented this one to feel less guilty having tiny fishtanks lol.

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