Strange but Interesting Facts

• If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the english language.
• The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.

Vocabulary Help

• average – média
• blink – piscar
• dark room – quarto escuro
• goldfish – peixinho dourado
• keep – manter
• left handed – canhoto
• right handed – destro
• snail – lesma
• turn white – ficar branco
• twice – duas vezes
• sleep (sleep, slept, slept) – dormir