On vacation in the US, I bought a t-shirt with interesting facts. I can assume how many are real, but there are some that I am uncertain about. For your benefits, I'll type in all of 'em.

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched"
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
• There are more chickens than people in the world
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
• No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
• A polar bear actually has black skin and clear (do they mean transparent?) fur
• More people are killed by donkeys than in plane crashes each year
• Shakespeare invented over 1700 words in the English language
• No President of the United States was an only child
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it
• Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing
• A duck's quack does not make an echo
• Women blink nearly twice as much
• A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death
• A snail can sleep for 3 years

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While you may be right, Athene, are there any we might discuss?

• The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it

• A duck's quack does not make an echo

I think these are particularly interesting. Who might gather some insight to these?

Posted By: Geog

• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched"
• A polar bear actually has black skin and clear (do they mean transparent?) fur
• A duck's quack does not make an echo

I've heard about the duck before.
I think they mean "white fur" and not transparent or clear. Polar bears appear white, not black.

From Braingle

The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote.

Possible squirreled, if you say it right.

Otherwise (9 letters): Broughams, craunched, scratched, scraughed, screeched, scrinched,scritched, scrooched, scrounged, scrunched, sprainged, spreathed, squelched, straights, strengths, stretched, throughed, thrutched

if not more.

• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
• A duck's quack does not make an echo

I believe the mythbusters disproved both of these. I know the ducks one for sure.

Posted By: Geog

• A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death

Ahem, it's its...

•Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing
--Just dumb
•A snail can sleep for 3 years
--That's as long as they live, although they can hibernate for a season. It needs some more insight.
•Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
--True: see http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/skin2.html
•It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
--Not that it's impossible, it just pops blood vessels. False. Here's an article by My Beloved Cecil: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_304.html
•No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple
--Only one that is false is silver. That has several rhymes in certain accentations, like sever, never, etc.

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