Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Some interesting facts...that you probably didn't know!

Most of these are literal in nature and others are neat if you think it visually in your imagination. Just wanted to pass on the interestingness!

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

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

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."

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.