It's hard to believe this is the first weekend of spring, after we have been experiencing spring-like weather for the past several weeks. But nobody seems to be complaining except the ski enthusiasts. Today I thought I'd fill you with some facts that probably won't enhance your life a single bit. But it's something to read and think about over your morning coffee.

Did you know that ...- "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.- 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".- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.- The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.- The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' 'level' 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 is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.- A snail can sleep for three years. (lucky snail)- Almonds are a member of the peach family.- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that also)- Babies 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.- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.- If the population of China walked past you, eight abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.- The average person's left hand does 56 percent of the typing.- The cruise liner, QE 2 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 winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.- There are more chickens than people in the world.- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.- All the ants in Africa weigh more than ALL the Elephants!