If you sleep just eight hours a day, and you live to be 90 years old, you have slept for 30 years
Good omens on your wedding day are: seeing a rainbow, having the sun shine, meeting a black cat, meeting a chiminy sweep
Bad Omens are: a pig, hare or lizzard running across the road, seeing a open grave
Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a patent.
According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world.
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavored ice cream produced.
Bats are the only mammal that can fly.
Bats have only one baby a year.
Elvis Presley made only one television commercial - an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only US president elected four times.
George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the United States.
Gerald Ford was the only US president not to have been elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have been married in the White House.
Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States - Iolani.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of
Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
In 1969, "Midnight Cowboy" became the first and only X-rated production
to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been
changed to R.)
James Buchanan was the only US president never to be married.
Libra, the Scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
Notables who were the only child in their families include Ansel Adams,
Hans Christian Andersen, Carol Burnett, Raymond Chandler, Eric Clapton,
Linda Ellerbee, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Englund, Charlton Heston,
James Earl Jones, Ted Koppel, Ivan Lendl, Barry Manilow, Maria
Montessori, Jack Nicholson, Flannery O'Connor, Al Pacino, Charlie
"Bird" Parker, Robert Edwin Peary, Lisa Marie Presley, Pres. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frank Sinatra, Robin Williams, and
Tiger Woods.
Ohio is the only US state without a rectangular flag. Ohio's flag is a pennant.
Only one foreign country--Liberia in Africa--has a capital city named
after an American president. The capital is Monrovia, named after James
Monroe.
Only one person ever won an Oscar by a write-in. In 1934 and 1935,
write-in votes were permitted and Hal Mohr won an Oscar for
Cinematography in 1935 for his work on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as a
write-in. 1935 was the last year such votes were permitted.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any state of the United States.
Richard M. Nixon is the only US president to have resigned.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves.
The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
The Beatles held the Top Five spots on the April 4th, 1964 Billboard
singles chart. To date, they're the only band that has ever
accomplished that.
The Bledowska Desert in Poland is the only true desert in Europe.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through.
The first graves in Arlington National Cemetery were dug by James
Parks, a former Arlington Estate slave. Buried in Section 15, James
Parks is the only person buried in Arlington National Cemetery who was
also born on the property.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The hyoid bone in the throat is the only bone in the human body not joined to another.
The Joshua tree is the only tree that grows in California's Mojave Desert.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.
The number 4 is the only number in the English language that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.
The only active diamond mine in the United States is in Arkansas.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
The only country in the world that has a Bill of Rights for Cows is India.
The only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution is treason - Article III, Section 3.
The only Englishman to become Pope was Nicholas Breakspear, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159.
The only father and son to hit back-to-back home runs in a major league
baseball game? Ken Griffey, Jr., and his father, Ken Griffey, Sr., both
of the Seattle Mariners, in a game against the California Angels on
September 14, 1990.
The only known common metal that is liquid at room temperature is mercury.
The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and
Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavor space shuttle from Sept 12-20,
1992.
The only one of his sculptures that Michelangelo signed was the "The Pieta," completed in 1500.
The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
The only repealed amendment to the US Constitution deals with the prohibition of alcohol.
The only river that flows both north and south of the equator is the Congo. It crosses the equator twice.
The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
The only wood used by famed London cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale was mahogany.
The pecan tree is the only naturally growing nut tree in North
American. It is native to the Texas, Mississippi and Mexico River
Valleys.
The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) indigenous to North America.
There is only one Q in a Scrabble game.
There's only one city in the United States named merely "Beach." It is found in North Dakota, which is a land-locked state.
Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
When Pierre Trudeau wed Margaret Sinclair in 1971 he became the only
Canadian Prime Minister to get married while in office. The couple
divorced in 1984.
Woodrow Wilson was the only US president to earn a doctorate.
Zsa Zsa Gabor was the first - and only - recipient of a Golden Globe
Award for "Most Glamorous Actress." She won the peculiar award in 1958.
The category was deleted thereafter
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
When opossums are playing dead, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
One in every 4 americans has appeared on television!
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The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue!
Honeybees have hair on their eyes!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
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The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 15 times a day!
3 out of 10 people will actually check on the above facts!
