Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. (I'll bet you're going to check this out.)
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 (pa lindromes). (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)
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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. (I know some people that could do this too.)
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people this applies to 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.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
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, QE2, 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.
When you buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the
freshest? Bread is generally delivered fresh to the stores five days a week?
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Each day has a different
color twist tie.
Monday = Blue
Tuesday = Green
Thursday = Red
Friday
= White
Saturday = Yellow
To remember the colors of the twist tie, they go
alphabetically by color - Blue-Green-Red-White-Yellow, Monday through Saturday,
skipping Wednesdays.
Do you have a white film on the inside of your vases?Fill the vase with vinegar and let set for a couple of hours.
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.
Did you know that US dollar bills are not printed on paper? They're actually printed on a 75% cotton and 25% linen blend. This allows bills to be creased up to 8,000 times before they tear.
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 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 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 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 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.
This is a list of best-selling albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Albums marked with a "˜" are double albums, and therefore are counted twice for each sale (see below):
Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) (1976, Asylum) - 29 times platinum
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Epic, 1982) - 27 times platinum
˜ Pink Floyd - The Wall (Columbia, 1979) - 23 times platinum
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (Atlantic, 1971) - 23 times platinum
AC/DC - Back in Black (Atlantic, 1980) - 21 times platinum
˜ Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 (Columbia, 1985) - 21 times platinum
Shania Twain - Come on Over (Mercury, 1997) - 20 times platinum
˜ Garth Brooks - Double Live (Capitol, 1998) - 20 times platinum
˜ The Beatles - The Beatles ("The White Album") (Apple, 1968) - 19 times platinum
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Warner Bros., 1977) - 19 times platinum
Boston - Boston (Epic, 1976) - 17 times platinum
Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard (Arista, 1992) - 17 times platinum
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (Maverick, 1995) - 16 times platinum
Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View (Atlantic, 1994) - 16 times platinum
Elton John - Greatest Hits (Polydor, 1974) - 16 times platinum
˜ The Beatles - 1967–1970 ("the Blue Album") (Capitol, 1973) - 16 times platinum
Garth Brooks - No Fences (Capitol, 1990) - 16 times platinum
˜ Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (Swan Song, 1975) - 16 times platinum
Eagles - Hotel California (Asylum, 1976) - 16 times platinum
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time (Jive, 1999) - 15 times platinum
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol, 1973) - 15 times platinum
˜ The Beatles - 1962–1966 ("the Red Album") (Capitol, 1973) - 15 times platinum
˜ Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack) (RSO, 1977) - 15 times platinum
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (Geffen, 1987) - 15 times platinum
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (Columbia, 1984) - 15 times platinum
Santana - Supernatural (Arista, 1999) - 15 times platinum
Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys (Jive, 1997) - 14 times platinum
Metallica - Metallica ("the Black Album") (Elektra, 1991) - 14 times platinum
Simon and Garfunkel - Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1972) - 14 times platinum
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (Epic, 1977) - 14 times platinum
Garth Brooks - Ropin' the Wind (Capitol, 1991) - 14 times platinum
Journey - Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1988) - 14 times platinum
Backstreet Boys - Millennium (Jive, 1999) - 13 times platinum
Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits (1974–1978) (Capitol, 1978) - 13 times platinum
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (Arista, 1985) - 13 times platinum
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (soundtrack) (Warner Bros., 1984) - 13 times platinum
˜ Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live/1975-85 (Columbia, 1986) - 13 times platinum
˜ Forrest Gump (soundtrack) (Epic, 1994) - 12 times platinum
Kenny Rogers - Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits (1980) - 12 times platinum
˜ The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks, 1964–1971 (London, 1972) - 12 times platinum
Shania Twain - The Woman in Me (Mercury, 1995) - 12 times platinum
Kenny G - Breathless (Arista, 1992) - 12 times platinum
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic, 1969) - 12 times platinum
Pearl Jam - Ten (Epic, 1991) - 12 times platinum
matchbox twenty - yourself or someone like you (Atlantic, 1996) - 12 times platinum
The Beatles - Abbey Road (Apple, 1969) - 12 times platinum
Boyz II Men - II (Motown, 1994) - 12 times platinum
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (Mercury, 1986) - 12 times platinum
Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces (Monument, 1998) - 12 times platinum
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required (Atlantic, 1985) - 12 times platinum
Def Leppard - Hysteria (Mercury, 1987) - 12 times platinum
Jewel - Pieces of You (Atlantic, 1995) - 12 times platinum
Creed - Human Clay (Wind-Up, 1999) - 11 times platinum
Celine Dion - Falling into You (Epic, 1996) - 11 times platinum
Eagles - Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Asylum, 1982) - 11 times platinum
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol, 1967) - 11 times platinum
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (Atlantic, 1973) - 11 times platinum
Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause (Atlantic, 1998) - 11 times platinum
TLC - CrazySexyCool (LaFace, 1994) - 11 times platinum
Various Artists - Dirty Dancing (RCA, 1987) - 11 times platinum
Various Artists - Titanic (Epic, 1997) - 11 times platinum
James Taylor - Greatest Hits (Warner Bros., 1976) - 11 times platinum
*NSYNC - No Strings Attached (Jive, 2000) - 11 times platinum
˜ Shania Twain - Up (Mercury, 2002) - 11 times platinum
˜ OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (LaFace, 2003) - 11 times platinum
Green Day - Dookie (Reprise, 1994) - 10 times platinum
Ace of Base - The Sign (Arista, 1993) - 10 times platinum
Mariah Carey - Music Box (Columbia, 1993) - 10 times platinum
Mariah Carey - Daydream (Columbia, 1995) - 10 times platinum
Dixie Chicks - Fly (Monument, 1999) - 10 times platinum
Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (Epic, 1997) - 10 times platinum
Eminem-The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath\Interscope 2000)- 10 times platinum
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (Interscope, 1995) - 10 times platinum
Doobie Brothers - Best of the Doobies (Warner Bros., 1976) - 10 times platinum
Billy Joel - The Stranger - 10 times platinum
Aerosmith - Aerosmith's Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1980) - 10 times platinum
Garth Brooks - The Hits (Capitol, 1994) - 10 times platinum
Eric Clapton - Unplugged (Reprise, 1992) - 10 times platinum
Carole King - Tapestry (Ode, 2000) - 10 times platinum
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Warner Bros., 2000) - 10 times platinum
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (Atlantic, 1969) - 10 times platinum
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (Sire, 1990) - 10 times platinum
Madonna - Like a Virgin (Sire, 1984) - 10 times platinum
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend (Tuff Gong, 1984) - 10 times platinum
George Michael - Faith (Columbia, 1987) - 10 times platinum
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits (MCA, 1993) - 10 times platinum
Def Leppard - Pyromania (Mercury, 1983) - 10 times platinum
Nirvana - Nevermind (Geffen, 1991) - 10 times platinum
Elton John and others - The Lion King (Walt Disney, 1994) - 10 times platinum
Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down (Motown, 1983) - 10 times platinum
MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (Capitol, 1990) - 10 times platinum
Van Halen - Van Halen (Warner Bros., 1978) - 10 times platnium
ZZ Top - Eliminator (Warner Bros., 1983) - 10 times platinum
Van Halen - 1984 (Warner Bros., 1984) - 10 times platinum
Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again) (Jive, 2000) - 10 times platinum
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me - 10 times platinum
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (Motown, 1976) - 10 times platinum
The Beatles - 1 (Capitol, 2000) - 10 times platinum
U2 - The Joshua Tree (Island, 1987) - 10 times platinum
Eminem - The Eminem Show (Aftermath, 2002) - 10 times platinum
*NSYNC - *NSYNC (RCA, 1998) - 10 times platinum
Patsy Cline - 12 Greatest Hits - (Decca, 1967) - 10 times platinum
Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey (Columbia, 1990) - 9 times platinum
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (Def Jam, 1986) - 9 times platinum
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony (Motown, 1991) - 9 times platinum
Garth Brooks - Garth Brooks (Capitol, 1989) - 9 times platinum
Garth Brooks - Sevens (Capitol, 1997) - 9 times platinum
Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All (Mercury, 1992) - 9 times platinum
John Denver - Greatest Hits (RCA, 1974) - 9 times platinum
Journey - Escape (Columbia, 1981) - 9 times platinum
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (Warner Bros., 1985) - 9 times platinum
The Doors - The Best of the Doors (Elektra, 1985) - 9 times platinum
Whitney Houston - Whitney (Arista, 1987) - 9 times platinum
REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity (Epic, 1980) - 9 times platinum
˜ Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Virgin, 1995) - 9 times platinum
˜ 2Pac - All Eyez On Me (Death Row, 1996) - 9 times platinum
˜ 2Pac - Greatest Hits (Death Row, 1998) - 9 times platinum
Will Smith - Big Willie Style (Columbia, 1997) - 9 times platinum
Various Artists - Footloose (Columbia, 1984) - 9 times platinum
Various Artists - The Great Band Era - 9 times platinum
Various Artists - Top Gun (Columbia, 1986) - 9 times platinum
Usher - Confessions (LaFace, 2004) - 9 times platinum
Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue (Jive, 2000) - 8 times platinum
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic (Columbia, 1975) - 8 times platinum
Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera (RCA, 1999) - 8 times platinum
The Beatles - The Beatles Anthology Volume 1 (Capitol, 1995) - 8 times platinum
Michael Bolton - Time, Love and Tenderness (Columbia, 1991) - 8 times platinum
Toni Braxton - Secrets (LaFace, 1996) - 8 times platinum
Toni Braxton - Toni Braxton (LaFace, 1993) - 8 times platinum
Garth Brooks - The Chase (Capitol) - 8 times platinum
Garth Brooks - In Pieces (Capitol) - 8 times platinum
Destiny's Child - The Writing's On The Wall (Columbia, 1999) - 8 times platinum
Eagles - Hell Freezes Over (Geffen, 1994) - 8 times platinum
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits (Warner Bros., 1988) - 8 times platinum
Faith Hill - Breathe (Warner Bros., 1999) - 8 times platinum
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse, 1998) - 8 times platinum
Michael Jackson - Bad (Epic, 1987) - 8 times platinum
Live - Throwing Copper (Radioactive, 1994) - 8 times platinum
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing (Arista, 1997) - 8 times platinum
Metallica - ...And Justice for All (Elektra, 1988) - 8 times platinum
Nelly - Country Grammar (Universal, 2000) - 8 times platinum
New Kids on the Block - Hangin' Tough (Columbia, 1988) - 8 times platinum
The Police - Synchronicity (A&M, 1983) - 8 times platinum
Queen - Greatest Hits (Elektra, 1981) - 8 times platinum
Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the Draw (Capitol, 1991) - 8 times platinum
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Columbia, 1970) - 8 times platinum
Stone Temple Pilots - Core (Atlantic, 1992) - 8 times platinum
George Strait - Strait Out of the Box - 8 times platinum
U2 - Achtung Baby (Island, 1991) - 8 times platinum
Whitesnake - Whitesnake (Geffen, 1987) - 8 times platinum
........Now you know everything!