E: Did you know...?
¤ Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.¤ Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
¤ Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
¤ "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "lollipop" with your right.
¤ The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
¤ The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
¤ 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.
¤ The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
¤ The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
¤ The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
¤ There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
¤ There are more chickens than people in the world.
¤ There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
¤ There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels
in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
¤ There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
¤ Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
¤ TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
¤ Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
¤ Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
¤ Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
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