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Feb 21
This ones will really make people think….
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand .
And ‘lollipop’ 
is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)
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’. (?Are you doubting this?)
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. (Now, you KNOW you’re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘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. (All you typists are going to test this out)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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Feb 04
New scientific research tells us that where humour is concerned, there’s definitely a gender divide.
If you’ve ever cracked what you consider a surefire joke, only to have a member of the opposite sex stare back at you blankly, eyes rolling and shoulders shrugging, take comfort: It might not be a reflection on the quality of your material. It turns out that humour is a funny thing.
When it comes to comedy, new scientific research tells us there is a significant gender divide - the brains of men and women react quite differently when confronted with a punch line. This discovery may help to shed light on important differences between the sexes and how their brains work. It may also go a long way towards explaining why, to this very day, it remains difficult to find a female human who even begins to understand why her otherwise mild-mannered husband is prone to abruptly commencing thunderous recitations of whole passages from Monty Python movies.
It is thanks to a very serious study about comedy, published in the very serious-sounding Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that we now know gender differences in what researchers call “humour processing” to be scientific fact.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers (who must have had a good laugh over the fact that while other researchers down at the lab toiled nightly over a spleen, they were studying comedy) affiliated with the department of psychiatry and brain sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers showed 70 black-and-white cartoons to ten women and ten men as each lay inside an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner - a machine that is not, one must say, traditionally associated with good times and laughter. The MRI monitored brain activity as the test subjects looked at the comics and pressed one of two buttons to indicate whether they found the material funny.
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Jan 28
Be careful how you list names on your cell phone!
A lady friend has changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen.
Her handbag which contained her mobile, Credit card, purse…etc…. was stolen. 20 minutes later.
When she called Her Hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, her hubby says ‘I’ve just received your text asking about our Pin number
and I’ve replied a little while ago.’ When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn.
The pickpocket had actually used the stolen hand phone to text ‘hubby’ in the contact list and got hold of the pin number.
Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from the bank account.
Moral of the lesson: Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, sweetheart, Dad, Mum etc…….
And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked thru texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
Also, when you’re being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them.
If you don’t reach them, be very careful about going places to meet ‘family and friends’ who text you.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON.
Reference to: Secret-tips