The beauty of Mathematics

Posted by waremock on Friday Mar 20, 2009 Under Education, Great Videos, Just for Fun
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Useless Trivia

Posted by waremock on Friday Dec 5, 2008 Under Just for Fun

• Stewardesses is the longest word you can type with your left hand only.
• Lollipops is the longest word you can type with your right hand only.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, purple, or silver.
• Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters mt.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our ears and nose never stop growing.
• There are only four words in the English language that end in dous – tremendous, horrendous, tupendous, and hazardous.
• There are 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 only one row of the keyboard.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• A shark is the only fi sh that can blink with both eyes.
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• 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.
• 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% the typing.
• Women blink nearly twice as often as men.
• The microwave was invented when a researcher walked by a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.

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