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Some interesting trivia you may or may not have known…

Just a collection of interesting facts. Or factoids… What’s the difference between a fact and a factoid?

• ‘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,’ 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.
• 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.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• 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, 8 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% 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.

Mario Lemieux Throws a Stanley Cup Party. Again.

Apparently the Pittsburgh Penguins finally beat the Detroit Red Wings and won the Stanley Cup last, and it seems the Stanley Cup went swimming in Mario Lemieux’s pool at a victory party in his Siwickley, PA home over the weekend.

And apparently, his previous Stanley Cup victory parties have been legendary. In 1992, after the Penguins first Cup win, defenseman Phil Bourque, wearing only his underwear, threw the Cup into the pool where it sank straight to the bottom.

More pictures on Flickr

Also, you may have seen Crosby hoisting the Cup into the team bus leaving Detroit and through the sunroof as it drove away:

Have you seen this kid dance yet?

Song is Wait (The Whisper Song) by Ying Yang Twins. This little guy has some serious moves!

What is heli-skiing really like? P.O.V. footage and great editing!

My friends Phil, Joe, Mike and Ricky went on a little heli-ski vacation this past winter, and shot their adventures on two HD camcorders, one of which was helmet-mounted. Wow, a helmet cam in Western Canada’s waist-deep pow, can’t get any better than that! Great job on the video, Little Dog!!