Some Facts

This is some good stuff I really needed to know...  

Maybe you knew some of this stuff already????

Stewardessesis the longest word 

typed with only the left hand. 

And 'lollipop'    is the longest word typed 

with your right hand.  

(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?) 

  

No word in the English language rhymes with 

month , orange, silver, or purple. 

 

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.   

(Are you doubting this?) 

our eyes 

are always the same size from birth, 

but our  and ears 

never stop growing. 

The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' 

uses every letter of the alphabet.  

(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?) 

The words 'racecar,'    'kayak'     and 'level'   are the same whether they are read left to right 

or right to left (palindromes).   

(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous':

tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 

(You're not possibly doubting this, are you ?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:

'abstemious' and 'facetious.' 

(Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u) 

TYPEWRITER

     

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

(All you typists are going to test this out) 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

   

A goldfish 

 
 has a memory span of three seconds 

(Some days that's about what my memory span is.) 

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

A shark   is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

A snail    can sleep for three years.   

(I know some people that could do this too.!) 

Almonds are a member of the peach 

 

family. 

An ostrich's eye

is bigger than its brain. 

(I know some people like that also .  Actually I know A LOT of people like this!)

Babies

are born without kneecaps.  

They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.  

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 

If the population of China walked past you, 8 people wide, 

the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors 

Peanuts    are one of the ingredients of dynamite! 

Rubber bands  last longer when refrigerated. 

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.  

  

The cruise liner, QE 2,

moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave

was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube

and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

(Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that  Niagara Falls

     

froze completely solid .

There are more chickens  than people in the world. 

Winston Churchill

was born in a ladies' room during a dance. 

Women blink  nearly twice as much as men. 

Now you know more than you did before!!

Spectacular New Floating Cycle Roundabout

For many Dutch people, their preferred mode of transportation is the bicycle. According to one estimate, every single day 14 million bicycle trips are made in Holland! Not surprisingly the country is well equipped with bicycle paths; bicycle traffic and safety is taken very seriously in the planning of infrastructure.

A magnificent example is the The Hovenring, a suspended bicycle path roundabout on the border between Eindhoven and Veldhoven. It is the first suspended bicycle roundabout in the world and was opened up for the public in June 2012 allowing bicycles to travel safely above the highly trafficked streets crossing below. Designed by ipv Delft, the bridge comprises a 70-metre high pylon, 24 steel cables and a circular bridge deck and is made out of circa 1.000 tons of steel.

 The Hovenring is a suspended bicycle path roundabout on the border between Eindhoven and Veldhoven in the Netherlands. It is the first suspended bicycle roundabout in the world.

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