|
A List of 50 (Mostly Worthless) Strange Facts - Page 4
-
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
-
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-
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 'race car,' '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 two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:
“abstemious" and "facetious."
-
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
|