Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills |
Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common |
School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange |
The state of Maryland has no natural lakes |
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. |
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world |
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there |
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON |
Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand |
Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry |
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight |
Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.
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Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer |
The U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies |
A full moon always rises at sunset |
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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The only two Southern state capitals not occuppied by Northern troops during the American Civil War were Austin, Texas and Tallahasse, Florida |
Rabbits love licorice |
The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome. |
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama |
Urea is found in humnan urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else |
Human birth control pills work on gorillas. |
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks. |
The license plate number of the Volkswagon that appeared on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road album was 281F. |
Pinocchio was made of pine.
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An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion. |
Alma mater means bountiful mother |
Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners are spared the nuisance of tuning them |
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak |