Now You Know It All!

[Bernie]

Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
(I'll bet you're going to check this out.)

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 nose 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 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.)

All 50 states are listed across the top of the

Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

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.)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

! Almonds are a member 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.

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

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the! flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

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, QE2, 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 everything

[BrunoRepublic]

Originally Posted by Bernie

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the! flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Wrong.

Canada hasn't made $2 bills in over a decade (they've been replaced by coins).

The "American flag" was reported to be on the $5 and $10 bills, but the flag is actually the pre-maple leaf "Red Ensign" design that was used until 1965. The reason why the Red Ensign design was chosen and not the Maple Leaf was that the illustrations depict the original parliament buildings, and when they were around, the Red Ensign was the flag at the time.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Red Ensign Scare)

[Bernie]

When I received the e-mail I thought that sounded weird, but I guess I have to do my part in spreading lies and deception

[Nano]

Originally Posted by Bernie

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

Where's the ñ? No, just kidding!

In Spanish we need two phrases. It reads like a telegram: “David Caña exige plazo fijo. Embarque hoy truchas New York”. They say it's the shortest.

This blog offers some of your items plus another ones (it's in Spanish). The guy says he got it from an Indian website:

» 63 datos completamente inútiles… pero entretenidos | Maikelnai’s blog

[Nano]

Oh! Another thing: last year I was in Austria and I noticed in all PC keyboards the Y letter is in the place of the Z and viceversa. Seems the German speakers use the Z a lot.

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Nano

Oh! Another thing: last year I was in Austria and I noticed in all PC keyboards the Y letter is in the place of the Z and viceversa. Seems the German speakers use the Z a lot.

The German/Austrian keyboards are rather unique. In Belgium we mainly use AZERTY, English people use QWERTY but they use QWERTZ. You know why? The "Y" isn't used very much in German language.

Bernie forgot the most important. "French Fries" are NOT French (yes again!). The term comes from to "French" potatoes, to cut them in slices. And (yes again!) Belgians invented it. And a fact that not too many people know: it was invented on the funfair!!!

And Bernie, do you know how many French you need to replace a light bulb?

[Bernie]

Johan,

Don't forget that a Belgian invented the saxophone. At least that's what I recall.

As for, how many Frenchmen you need to replace a light bulb?
I don't know, I GIVE UP

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Bernie

Don't forget that a Belgian invented the saxophone. At least that's what I recall.

Correct! In his lifetime it was considered as a very vulgar instrument!

Originally Posted by Bernie

As for, how many Frenchmen you need to replace a light bulb?

Okay, get ready: 6

1 to actually replace the bulb and 5 others to have a philosophical discussion about it. (very popular joke! In Flanders that is!)

[BrunoRepublic]

Originally Posted by Nano

Oh! Another thing: last year I was in Austria and I noticed in all PC keyboards the Y letter is in the place of the Z and viceversa. Seems the German speakers use the Z a lot.

Not to mention a dedicated key for ö.
French keyboards are quite something too... there's a dedicated key for é, and most keys have three functions (I think they are accessed by Ctrl). I quickly discovered that doing manual HTML would've been a nightmare on these due to the position and three simultaneous keystrokes to get < and > .

Dunno what a French Mac keyboard is like. Adding accents on Mac is a lot more intuitive than the Windows ALT + #### system.

[Nano]

All Spanish keyboards (PC and Mac) have two direct keys for the accents. One for the most common: in minuscule it's the (´) and in big letters the diéresis (¨). The other for the French reverse accent in minuscule (`) and in big letters it's the circunflex (^), used in French and Portuguese.

These keys don't use ALT+ or CTRL+. You just pulse them once and then the letter which will be accented. The two characters appear together, as in "simpático".

Of course, if you want more exotic characters like the o with a crossing line used in Scandinavia, you have to pulse ALT+2538 or something like that A nut case for journalists doing foreign affairs...

BTW, in our language these characters are not called "acentos" (accents) but "tildes" (marks?), because they refer to the character being written and not to the phonic overtone the "tilde" refers to.

*faking a radio speaker voice* "Did you know that?"

[paul]

I guess what these corrections are saying is that the world does not revolve around the US

[Nano]

*faking British accent* "Indeed, punter! Indeed!"

Now, that Bernie list has some amazing stuff!