Did you know? Well now you do.

THE old adage ‘You’re never too old to learn something new’, came true for me the other evening at my mother’s house.

So I decided to share my new found knowledge.

Here is a list of things I did not know.

• The word stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

• The word lollipop is the longest word typed with only the right hand.

• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

• The word dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.

• One’s eyes are always the same size from birth, but the nose and ears never stop growing.

• The saying ‘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’, namely tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.

• There are two words in the English language that contain all five vowels in order, namely abstemious and facetious.

• The word 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 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.