I am a trivia buff; I have been since I was a child. I have not fact checked these, but it was interesting to read them when they came in my mailbox the other day as part of an Internet chain mail (but since I found them on the Internet, there's no need to fact check them anyway, eh?!) :-)
'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
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'.
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.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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.'
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 three seconds.
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.
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 been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,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.
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.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Did you know?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Insightful?
Do people in California or New York search for "Green Energy" more? Are Japanese or Australians more interested in "Legos?" Now you can find out.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sand Art
Remember the tiny bottles of colored sand you made at the state fairs years ago ( or last summer)? Welcome to Sand Art 2.0! The This is Sand site allows you to create much larger masterpieces -- no bottles needed!
Monday, February 16, 2009
Not just for books anymore!
Bookshelves used to be places to organize your books (magazines, knick knacks, etc), but now they've become art!
Home Interiors Zone has collected a couple of sets of interesting contemporary "art pieces that are designed to be used to store books." Have a look at both set 1 and set 2
My Sauder screw and nail together, paper laminated, four-shelf chunks certainly don't compare to these works of art! :-(
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Are you unemployed? Are you sure?
Click for better image if cut off...
Regardless of what the government thinks, if you don't have the job you want to have, I wish you the best...
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Somewhere over the rainbow
CNN (courtesy of Mental Floss) had an interesting piece the other day about the origins of some famous (and not so famous) Muppets. It's interesting to realize the humble beginning of these creatures that have come to be so dear to our hearts.
These stuffed-felt animals are fun for "kids" of all ages.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Watch your cursor!
Self Control Freak has several interactive videos that actually interact with your cursor. Kinda of a cool effect.
Depending on where you place your cursor on top of the image, the video reacts differently. Everything from catching your cursor and eating it, to smacking it away, to a few more crude clips.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Silent Treatment
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper,‘Please wake me at 5:00 AM .’ He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn’t wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, ‘It is 5:00 AM . Wake up.’
Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.
From: http://aproposofnothing.wordpress.com/
--We're just no match for them :-(
Monday, February 9, 2009
Walmart expansion
It's been said there's a Walmart in every small town. Well, there must be more small towns than I thought! This Flowing Data page shows the expansion of Walmart across the country since it's inception. It kinda looks like something growing in a petri dish :-)
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Oh darn...
Best Buy alters it's price matching policy.
(click on the picture to see a larger version)
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The world needs a new superhero...
...so make one! Marvel Comics has created a site that allows you to build your own superhero!
Start with a basic form and then customize with all the bling a real superhero needs. Add a bit of color and send them out into the world to save us all!
