செவ்வாய், ஜனவரி 18, 2011

G.K.

1.Stewardesses  is 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?)  
2.No word  in the  English language rhymes with  month,  orangesilver,  or  purple. 3.' Dreamt'  is the  only English word that ends in the letters   'mt'.   (Are  you  doubting this?) 
4.our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose
 and ears  never stop growing.  ++++If one has to live to the age of 150 years would he look like an elephant?????
5.The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.  (Now, you're going to try this out for accuracy,  right?) 
6.The words  'racecar,'     'kayak'   malayalam    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.)
7.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 ?)
8.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

9.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
10.A  cat has 32 muscles in each ear
. 
 
 11.A goldfish  has a memory span of three seconds 
(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)
 
12.A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a   second. 
13.A 
shark is the only fish  that can blink with both eyes. 
14.A snail   
  can sleep for three years.    (I  know Anandan could do this too!) 
15.Almonds
 are a member of the peach     family. 
16.An ostrich's eye
 is bigger than its brain. (I know some  people like that also for sight seeing.  Actually I know  A  LOT of people like this!) 
17.Babies
 are born without kneecaps.   They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.  
18.February  1865 is the only  month in recorded history not to have a  full  moon.
  
19.In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. [Is it true Karayan?]
20.If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
 You are asking what about India]21.Leonardo Da Vinci  invented  the scissors [Das invented Katthi]
22.Peanuts     are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
23.Rubber bands
 last longer when refrigerated. 
24.The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 

25.The  cruise liner, QE  2,moves  only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it  burns.
26.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.I am using one in my office for eating])
27.The winter of 1932 was so cold that  Niagara Falls        
froze completely solid  
.[Gujili and GFK has to authenticate]

28.There are more chickens than people in the world.++++Does this include men who chicken out ???[Yenna Das sariyaa?]
29.Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. [Naan Veettil]
30.Women  blink
  nearly twice as much as men. [Yennai yaarum appadi paarpadhillai]
Now you know more than you did before!!
 

Poadhumaa?
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பாய்.

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