Founds these on the web. Are they true?
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450 degrees F.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
Glass
takes one
million years
to decompose,
which means it
never wears
out and can be
recycled an
infinite
amount of
times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450 degrees F.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in
every five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as
airstrips in
times of war or other emergencies.
The Boston
University Bridge
(on Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston,
Massachusetts)
is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving
under a car driving under an airplane.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
The United States
government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S.
Military Academy at West
Point, NY.
There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the
thirteen blimps
are in the United
States.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only
have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never
stop growing.
David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star
Wars. He spoke
all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to
be dubbed over
by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of "F."
Camel's milk does not curdle.
"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
The word "modem" is a contraction of the words
"modulate, demodulate."
(MOdulateDEModulate)
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army
for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to
clean elephants.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece
and
Australia
have participated in every Olympics.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to
have a full
moon.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be
one pound.
Montpelier, Vermont
is the only U.S.
state capital without a McDonalds.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
The Pentagon, in Arlington,
Virginia, has twice as many
bathrooms as is
necessary. When it was built in the 940s, the state of Virginia still
had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities
for blacks and
whites.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches
for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every
Dewey-decimal
category.
Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the
Pulitzer prize.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City,
after the Catholic Church.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer
wasn't considered
a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's
Flight
Simulator.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni,
and about a
gallon to clean the pot.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until
the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.
The highest point in Pennsylvania
is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies,
you have $.9.
You also have the largest amount of money in coins without
being able to
make change for a dollar.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all
of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium
has ever won a
Superbowl.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave
It To Beaver".
In the great fire of London
in 1666 half of London
was burnt down but
only 6 people were injured
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton
growers in
the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as
competition.
The only two days of the year in which there are no North
American
professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and
the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter
Pan."
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