Michel’s Thoughts

A compilation of funny emails I get, things I find on the internet and my thoughts

Useless Facts

February17

‘Lollipop’  2   is the longest word typed with your right hand.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 3 4

‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’. ?

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Our eyes  6   are always the same size from birth, but our nose7 and ears  8 never stop growing.

The sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses every letter of the alphabet.  9

The words ‘racecar,’  10   ‘kayak’   11   and ‘level’  12 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   13   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)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 14

A goldfish  15   has a memory span of three seconds. 

A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 16

A shark  17   is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail  18   can sleep for three years.

Almonds are a member of the peach  19   family.

An ostrich’s eye20 is bigger than its brain.

Babies21 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.  22

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

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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

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Peanuts  26   are one of the ingredients of dynamite! 27

Rubber bands28 last longer when refrigerated.

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing. 29

The cruise liner, QE 2, 30 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave  31   was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls   32   froze completely solid.

There are more chickens 33 than people in the world.

Winston Churchill 34 was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

Women blink35 nearly twice as much as men.

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Beauty of Math

February3

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn’t it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 11 1 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321