{"id":363,"date":"2016-01-25T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=363"},"modified":"2016-01-29T05:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T10:22:42","slug":"another-20-irrelevant-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Another 20 irrelevant facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a list of 20 more irrelevant facts; again, sure to prompt both interesting discussions and prolonged silence.<\/p>\n

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  1. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.<\/li>\n
  2. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.<\/li>\n
  3. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.<\/li>\n
  4. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.<\/li>\n
  5. “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right.<\/li>\n
  6. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.<\/li>\n
  7. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.<\/li>\n
  8. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.<\/li>\n
  9. The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.<\/li>\n
  10. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.<\/li>\n
  11. The words ‘racecar’, ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).<\/li>\n
  12. There are more chickens than people in the world.<\/li>\n
  13. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.<\/li>\n
  14. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”<\/li>\n
  15. There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.<\/li>\n
  16. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.<\/li>\n
  17. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.<\/li>\n
  18. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.<\/li>\n
  19. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.<\/li>\n
  20. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Here is a list of 20 more irrelevant facts; again, sure to prompt both interesting discussions and prolonged silence. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Rubber…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7786,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/7786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}