I'd Like Mine Rare, Please.
These days, finding something that is literally "one of a kind" is rare. It seems nearly everything can be duplicated. Outside of original art and your group of family and friends-plenty of unique characters there-do you have a claim to fame that is truly unmatchable? Well, if you can't own "the only one like it in the world," then at least you can impress everyone with "one and only" trivia. And, as the resident trivia expert, that makes you nearly one of a kind.
- Baskin-Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable-flavored ice cream the company produced.
- Elvis Presley made only one television commercial-an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954.
- 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 U.S. president to have been married in the White House.
- Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States-Iolani.
- 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.
- Libra, the Scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.
- Ohio is the only U.S. 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.
- Swans are the only birds with penises.
- 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 king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.
- The only one of his sculptures that Michelangelo signed was the The Pieta, completed in 1500.
- The only river that flows both north and south of the equator is the Congo. It crosses the equator twice.
- The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) indigenous to North America.
- There is only one Q in a Scrabble game.
- 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.
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