1. Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

2. The term “bank teller” originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to “tell” throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.

3. Fish have “dandruff” caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.

4. Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.

5. To commemorate ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, U.S. playing card manufacturers replaced “staffs” with “hearts” as the fourth suit in the deck. The world soon followed.

6. Two-thirds of all the world’s coriander comes from a single valley in Italy.

7. Female black cats can actually see their shadows at night.

8. Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.

9. The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune.

10. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

11. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there’s no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

12. The first McDonald’s restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

13. You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

14. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his “signature” on the keyboard.

15. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

http://www.worldamazingthings.com/2008/03/amazing-and-true-facts.html