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The Typewritten Word

The keyboard has taken over from the humble typewriter since the computer came along, but did you know....

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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

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