sex and politics

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Just some useless facts to keep your brains occupied until the next shot of skin, meat or the occasional policial rant

-“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right. (Bet you tried this out on your keyboard, didn’t you?)
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. (didn’t know that one)
-“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. (unbelievable!)
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. (Just look at prince Charles!)
-The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet. (Everyone who ever installed a copy of Windows knows this)
-The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Childish, I know)
-There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (Hm, gotta check that one out)
-There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” (don’t go “a e i o u” on me now, please!)
-TYPEWRITER 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. (really?)
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Just like me in the mornings)
-A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. (A Brit must have thought of this one)
-February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. (WHAT?)
-Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. (and became the honorary member of the hairdessers guild, no doubt)
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite! (so peanut butter is like…. plastic explosives?)
-The microwave 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 froze completely solid. (if it happened today, Janez Janša and Urška Bačovnik would be quick to climb the frozen waterfall)
-There are more chickens than people in the world. (And some of the latter are already defecting)
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance. (no wonder he was a drunkard - must have scarred him emotionally)

And now one in Slovene:
-Katera slovenska beseda vsebuje pet “e”-jev? (presenečenje vam ne uide)