30 Random Facts You Probably Didn't Know And Probably Don't Need To Know

Here are some things you may not know...

1) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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

3) The words 'racecar', 'kayak', and 'level' are the same when written backwards. (palindromes)

4) There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

5) There are only 2 words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious, and facetious.

6) "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

7) A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

8) A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

9) A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. (So don't lie; you will never be able to be "back in a jiffy".)

10) A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

11) A snail can sleep for three years.

12) Almonds are a member of the peach family.

13) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that also...)

14) Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

15) February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

16) In the last 4,000, no new animals have been domesticated.

17) If the population of China walked past you in rows of 8, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

18) Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

19) Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

20) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 

21) The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

22) The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

23) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he hadn't eaten it yet.)

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

25) There are more chickens than people in the world.

26) Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. (Dancing in the 70s sure was crazy!)

27) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

28) All the ants in Africa weigh more than all the elephants.

29) A lump of pure gold the size of a match box can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

30) Giraffes can clean their ears with their 18 inch tongue.