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THE ONLY : UNIQUE, ONE OF A KIND, UNUSUALl, EXEPTIONAL PEOPLE, PLACES, ANIMALS & OTHER WONDERS.

1.Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
2.Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
3.Bats are the only mammal that can fly.
4.Bats have only one baby a year.
5.Elvis Presley made only one television commercial - an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.
6.Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only US president elected four times.
7.George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the United States.
8.Gerald Ford was the only US president not to have been elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
9.Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
10.Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have been married in the White House.
11.Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States - Iolani.
12.Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
13.James Buchanan was the only US president never to be married.
14.Libra, the Scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.
15.Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.
16.Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
17.Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any state of the United States.
18.Richard M. Nixon is the only US president to have resigned.
19.Swans are the only birds with penises.
20.Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves.
21.The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
22.The Bledowska Desert in Poland is the only true desert in Europe.
23.The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
24.The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through.
25.he hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
 
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UNUSUAL, UNIQUE & UNCOMMON FACTS ABOUT SCIENCE

* A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
* A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
* Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
* An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.
* Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
* Mineral deposits in caves: The ones growing upward are stalagmites, the ones growing downward are stalactites.
* Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.
* The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
* The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter - bigger than a basketball.
* The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.
* The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
* The three most common elements in the universe are 1) hydrogen; 2) helium; 3) oxygen.
* The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY.

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