---received from a friend by email
· Albert Einstein never learned how to drive a car. · Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. · Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. · E is the most frequently used letter in English. · Gadsby is the only novel (267 pages, 50,000 words) written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright, without the use of letter "E". · Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter; by Mark Twain in 1876. · Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter. · The word Set has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word Run runs a distant second, with 396. · The dot over the i or j is called a tittle. · The word queue is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the whole for its first letter. · The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. · Mandarin is most-spoken language in the world, spoken by 1.07 billion people, followed by English, spoken by 514 million.. · Papua New Guinea have the greatest number of first languages. There are 869 separate languages - not dialects. · The world's first university was established in Taxila (comprised of cities Mohenjadaro and Harappa) Pakistan in 700 BC. · There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar; Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. · The only three English words beginning with dw are; Dwarf, dwell and dwindle. · 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321 · There are currently 6,912 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today. · Letters 'a', ' b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred) · Letters 'a', ' b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 (Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand) · Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' only comes for the first time in Billion) · Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting · The most common name in the world is Mohammed.. · The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. · The war between England and Zanzibar in 1896 was the shortest war in history, lasted only 38 minutes. · Monumental Axis in Brazil is the world's widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side at the same time. · The Central Railway in Peru is the world's highest railway. It climbs to 15,694 feet in the Galera Tunnel. · Australian $5 to $50 notes are made of plastic.
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