I found this in one of those forwarded email I received daily and I thought it will help to make the process of learning English a bit on the fun side.

Let’s take a break and enjoy the following knowledge. Whether they are true or not let’s not worry about them too much…. have fun!!!

This one 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). (Yep, I knew you
were going to ‘do’ this one.)

There are only four words
in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous,
and hazardous. (You’re not doubting this, are
you?)

There are
two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:
‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

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.

A goldfish
has a memory span of three
seconds. (Some days that’s about what my memory
span is.)

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. (I know some people that could
do this too.!)

Almonds are a
member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s
eye is bigger than its
brain. (I know some people like
that also)

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
. (Good thing he did
that.)

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.

Now you know more
than you did before!!

The
Rain-Thomas Kinkade

This is a Thomas Kinkade painting It’s rumored to carry a miracle!
They
say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle. I am passing this on
because I thought it was really pretty, and besides, who couldn’t use a
miracle?!