• 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand. And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
• 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.

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• 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand. And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
• 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.

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