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There is no alcohol left in food that's cooked with wine. The alcohol evaporates at 172 degrees Fahrenheit.

There is no difference in flavor or nutritional value between brown and white eggs. Aside form color, they are identical. Most white eggs come from White Longhorns and browns come from a commercial cross of Rhode Island Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks.

There is no ice covering Iceland.

There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.

There is no such thing as a banana tree. Bananas grow on plants.

There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper

There is over 70,000,000 rats in New York, That is an average of about 9 rats per person

There is zero gravity at the center of the earth.

There really was a Cyrano de Bergerac. He lived from about 1620 to 1655, had a big nose and dueled. He was also a science fiction writer who was the first person in history to suggest that a rocket could carry someone into space.

There was no soap in the ancient Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used to wash the body in addition to cooking.

There was once a law in Salem Virginia that made it illegal to leave home without knowing where you were going.

There were 840 soldiers in the regular army when the U.S. War Department was established in 1789. Their job was to supervise public lands and guard the Indian frontier.

There's a town in New Mexico called Pie Town that consists of two restaurants and a post office. It was originally a stoppong place along a long stretch of road. It's famous for having good pies!

There's an average of of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun.

There's Arsnick(a dangerous poison) in dirt

There's enough water preassure in one onion cell to cause a steam engine to explode.

Thirteen muscles are used to make a person smile.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

This is what the red, white, and blue on the US flag represent: The Continental Congress left no record to show why it chose the colors. However, in 1782, the Congress of the Confederation chose these same colors for the Great Seal of the United States and listed their meaning as follows: white to mean purity and innocence, red for valor and hardiness, and blue for vigilance, perseverance, and justice. According to legend, George Washington interpreted the elements of the flag this way: the stars were taken from the sky, the red from the British colors, and the white stripes signified the secession from the home country. However, there is no official designation or meaning for the colors of the flag.

This may have been true on an older $5 bill, but I just scanned in one of the new ones and took a real close look and found nothing. If anyone finds it on an old one, please send in a pic or let me know.

This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds

This sounds feasible, but isn't true! Crapper actually invented the automatic shut-off mechanism used in the modern toilet.

Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

Thomas Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter.

Thomasville, North Carolina, prohibits airplanes from flying over the town on Sundays during the hours between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Those British are sophisticated people, in almost everything except their choice of coffee. They still drink instant ten-to-one over fresh brewed.

Those hard, plastic points on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.

Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction from an earthquake (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)

Thousands of people watched the Battle of Bunker Hill take place. People in the Boston area sat on rooftops, in trees, on church steeples, and in the rigging of ships in the harbor to watch the American revolutionaries battle the British.

Three chemicals are used to execute criminals by lethal injection. First, Sodium Thiopental is injected, causing the inmate to fall into a deep sleep. The second chemical agent, Pancuronium Bromide, a muscle relaxer, follows. This causes the inmate to stop breathing due to paralyses of the diaphragm and lungs. Finally, Potassium Chloride is injected, stopping the heart.

Three million people in the United States have an impairment of the back or limbs that is a direct result of an accidental fall.

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

Throughout his career, DeWolf Hopper recited Casey at the Bat" over 10,000 times.

Tiger Woods is the only person to hold all four major championships at one time, although it did not happen in the calendar year. He also currently holds the scoring record for all four majors.

Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Tigers' paw prints are called pug marks.

Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1938 was Adolf Hitler.

Timmie Jean Lindsey of Houston, TX became the first person to get silicone breast implants in 1962.

Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.

To avoid long encounters with the press, President Ronald Reagan often took reporters' questions with his helicopter roaring in the background.

To find out almost the exact temperature... Listen to a cricket chirping and count the number of chirps in a minute. Add fifty, divide by four then add 40.

To go one lunar day, adjust your watch to lose two minutes and five seconds every hour.

To keep your feet warm, put on a hat: 80% of all body heat escapes through the head.

To make things easier while mixing the American Graffiti sound track, George Lucas and sound designer Walter Murch labeled all of the film reels R and all of the dialogue tracks D, and then numbered each of them sequentially, starting with 1. When Murch later asked Lucas for Reel 2 Dialogue 2 or more precisely, R2 D2 Lucas liked the way it sounded so much that he made a note of the name for another project he was writing.

To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair.

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 50 that cause, initiate or promote cancer such as tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and benzopyrene.

Today's commercial bananas are scientifically classified into the genus Musa of the Musaceae family.

Toilets in Australia flush counter clockwise.

Tokyo is the largest city by population (35million), followed by New York (21 million), then by Seoul (21 million), then Mexico City (20 million).

Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Anne Archer are members of the Church of Scientology

Tommy McDonald, a receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, was the last NFL player to wear a helmet without a face mask.

Tony Hawk has made more money from video games and tv commercials than from skateboarding.

Toothbrushes should be kept 6 feet away from the toilet to avoid being contaminated by airborne stuff stirred up after flushing

Top corporate executives take separate planes in case one crashes.

Tortoises drink water through their noses.

Tossing coins into fountains, dates back more than 2,000 years ago.

Townsend Speakman of Philadelphia mixed fruit flavor with soda water in 1807, creating the first flavored soda pop, he called it Nephite Julep.

Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.

Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

Truffles, or mushrooms that grow below the ground, are one of the world's most expensive foods. One variety, Tuber melanosporum, can cost between $800 and $1,500 a pound.

Turkey began to roast and grind the coffee bean in the 13th Century, and some 300 years later, in the 1500's, the country had become the chief distributor of coffee, with markets established in Egypt, Syria, Persia, and Venice, Italy.

Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis

Turkeys drown in the rain

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Turtles have no teeth.

Twinkies have a shelf life of about 25 years.

Two in every three car buyers pays the sticker price without arguing.

Two normal kidneys contain 2 million tiny blood filters which filter 50 gallons of blood every day!.

Two thirds of all left-handed people are men.

Two U.S. Presidents with the initials "J.M." followed each other as president.

Two-thirds of the world's coffee comes from Brazil.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

Underfund and underground are the only two English words which start and finish with "und."

Unique animals. Hippopotami cannot swim (ppl have said that a hippo can swim, but i dont think its classified as swimming. I'll check), whales can't swim backwards, tarantulas can't spin webs, crocodiles can't chew and hummingbirds can't walk

Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Unlike most fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards.

Unprosperousness is the longest word in which every letter occurs at least twice.

Until 1896, drivers in Great Britain had to warn of their presence by having a person precede their car on foot, waving a red flag.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5 p.m.

Until 1967 it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use drugs to enhance their performance during competition.

Until the 1870s, baseball was played without the use of gloves.

Until the 18th century coffee was almost always boiled.

Until the 18th century India produced almost all the world diamonds.

Until the late 1800's, people roasted their coffee at home. Popcorn poppers and stove-top frying pans were favored.

Until the time of Michelangelo, many sculptors colored their statues, and most from ancient Greece and Rome at one time had been painted or "polychromed." Over the course of years, rain washed the colors off the marble.

Until the time of Michelangelo, many sculptors colored their statues. Most of the statues from ancient Greece and Rome at one time had been painted or polychromed. Rain through the ages washed off the paint and the statues were left in their natural marble.

Up until the early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration of epileptics.

Upper and Lower case letters are so named because when print had to be set by individual letters the upper case letters were stored in a case above the case that held the lower case letters.

URanus' axis is at 97 degrees. which means that it orbits on its side. (Most of the planets spin on an axis nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic but Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic.)

Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Uranus was originally called George, in honour of King George III of Britain

US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

US gold coins used to say "In Gold We Trust".

US Presidents who died on July 4th: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, James Monroe died in 1831.

US presidents who have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A. Garfield in 1881, William H. McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963.

US Presidents who never attended college: Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln, Harry S Truman, and George Washington.

US Presidents who never had children: George Washington, known as the "Father of the Country," James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, and Warren Harding.

US Presidents who never held any other elective office: U. S. Grant, William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

US Presidents who owned slaves : George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant.

US presidents who served an entire term without a vice president: John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester Arthur.

US presidents who were survived by their fathers: John F. Kennedy and Warren Harding.

US Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. Senate on August 19, 1957. He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

'Vaimonkanto' or 'Wife Carrying' is a sports event. The 'Carry an Old Gel' championship games are held anually in Sonkajarvi, Finland.

Van Camp's Pork and Beans were a staple food for Union soldiers in the Civil War.

Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.

Vaseline was created by Robert Chesebrough in 1870. He developed it after visiting Titusville, PA in 1859. While there he noticed that workers were treating cuts and burns with grease that accumulated on drill rods from the oil fields.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. It’s just 0.17 square miles. Monaco is the second smallest at 0.7 square miles.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. The whole country is only 108.7 acres, which a population of just 1,000 (approx.).

Venus is the only planet in the solar system to spin backwards.

Venus rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours).

Vermont, admitted as the 14th state in 1791, was the 1st addition to the original 13 colonies.

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period.

Victor Mills, an inventor with Proctor & Gamble, invented the disposable diaper in 1961 because he didn't want to deal with his daughter's soiled (crapped) diapers. You know them as Pampers.

Vincent van Gogh didn't start to draw until he was 27 years old.

Vincent van Gogh is known to have sold only one painting during his lifetime.

Virgina Woolf wrote all of her books standing.

Virginia law forbids bathtubs in the house; tubs must be kept in the yard.

Volkswagen was the first foreign company to open a factory in the United States. The auto plant opened in 1978 in Pennsylvania.

Waldo Hanchett invented the modern dentist's chair in 1848.

Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio.

Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated.

Walt Disney provided the voice of Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Walt Disney's first cartoon character was called Oswald the Rabbit.

Walt Disney's youngest daughter is named Sharon.

Walter Huston and his son John become the first father-and-son team to win Oscars as director of and an actor in "Treasure of Sierra Madre" in 1949.

Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with youor holding you in his arms.

Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

Warren G. Harding was the first American President to visit Canada. He stopped in Vancouver, British Columbia while he was on his way to Alaska.

Warren G. Harding's middle name is Gamaliel.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt are the four US presidents whose faces are carved on Mt. Rushmore.

Water based mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move them sideways.

Watermelon is grown in over 96 countries worldwide. Over 1,200 varieties of watermelon are grown worldwide. There are about 200 varieties of watermelon throughout the US.

Watermelon, considered one of America's favorite fruits, is really a vegetable (Citrullus lanatus). Cousin to the cucumber and kin to the gourd, watermelons can range in size from 7 to 100 pounds.

Watermelons grown along the Tigris River have been known to reach as much as 275 pounds.

We [humans] only use 10% of our brains.

We blink eyes 25 times each minute.

We blink our eyes once every six second i.e. in the course of a life time we blink about 250 million times.

We lose half a litre of water a day through breathing. This is the water vapour we see when we breathe onto glass.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Wedding cake was originally thrown at the bride and groom, instead of eaten by them.

Wesley Snipes has a 5th Degree Black Belt.

Wesley Snipes installed public telephones while struggling to become an actor in New York.

Wet sand weighs less than dry sand.

Whale hunting is strictly prohibitted throughout the entire state of Oklahoma.

Whales can never focus both their eyes on the same object at once

What does a Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow,Julia and Great Egg Fly have in common? They're all butterflies!Thanx Bijou

What we call the sky is merely the limit of our vision into the atmosphere. The sky, like the horizon, is always as far away as one can see.

What word can you take the first letter of, put it as the last letter, and make it the past tence of the original word? Answer: Eat (ate)

Wheat is the world's most widely cultivated plant; grown on every continent except Antarctica.

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.

When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

When a giraffe is born, it has to fall around six feet to the ground.

When a man was hanged in Mississippi in 1894 the noose came undone and the prisoner fell to the ground. He was set free and and since his innocence was later established he was granted ,$5000.

When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. First off would be your sight.

When a person is wide awake, alert, and mentally active, he is still only 25% aware of what various parts of his body are doing. (2-1-04)

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.

When Alexander Graham Bell Was working on the telephone in 1876, he spilled battery acid on his pants and called out to his assistant, "Watson, please come here. I want you." Watson, who was on another floor, heard the call through the instrument he was hooking up, and ran to Bell's room. Bell's words became the first ever successfully communicated using a telephone.

When angered, the ears of the tazmanian devil turn pinkish red.

When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.

When armadillos are pregnant they always have quadruplets of the same sex.

When Bob Marley died they found 19 different species of lice in his dreadlocks.

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

When Catherine de Medici married Henry II of France (1533) she brought forks with her, as well as several master Florentine cooks. Foods never before seen in France were soon being served using utensils instead of fingers or daggers. She is said to have introduced spinach (which "à la Florentine" usually means) as well as aspics, sweetbreads, artichoke hearts, truffles, liver crépinettes, quenelles of poultry, macaroons, ice cream, and zabagliones.

When Charles Darwin published his theory on human evolution in The Descent of Man in 1871, not a single fossil that was known to be pre-human had been found to back up his ideas. Although his theory was later proved to be true, it was formulated entirely without physical evidence and based almost completely on speculation.

When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a "tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco.

When cows lay down, they get up back feet first...so if you get enough people to sit on their rear end, they won't be able to stand again. Doctors use this when operating and giving shots.

When Disneyland opened in 1955, Tomorrowland represented a city from 1986.

When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.

When George Washington ran for the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1757, he was accused of trying to win votes by plying voters with 28 gallons of rum, 50 gallons of rum punch, 46 gallons of beer and 34 gallons of wine.

When George Washington was elected President, there was a King in France, a Czar in Russia, an Emperor in China, and a Shogun in Japan. Only the office of President remained.

When glass breaks, it showers TOWARDS, not away from the force that broke it. To reiterate, I will repeat it again one more time, to recap, TOWARDS the force, not away.

When Henry Aaron hit his 715th Home Run, breaking Babe Ruth's record, the pitcher who served it up was Al Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were both wearing number 44.

When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.

When Leonardo Da Vinci was young he drew a picture of a horrible monster and placed near a window in order to surprise his father. Upon seeing the picture his father believed it to be real and set out to protect his family until the boy showed him it was just a picture. Da Vinci's father then enrolled his son in an art class.

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed that his small intestine contained five gold Krugerrands. (not verified)

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in in the year 79, over 2,000 citizens of Pompeii ran into their cellars to wait until everything had ended. Excavators found them still there 1,800 years later.

When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969).

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing," They actually pass out from sheer terror.

When possums are "playing possum" they're not playing they are actually passed out from sheer terror.

When potatoes first appeared in Europe in the seventeenth century, it was thought that they were disgusting, and they were blamed for starting outbreaks of leprosy and syphilis. As late as 1720 in America, eating potatoes was believed to shorten a person's life.

When potatoes were brought from South America over to Spain, it took about 200 years before it was recognized as a food.

When potatoes were first introduced to Europe, people were skeptical and only ate the leaves, which made them sick. They would then throw away the rest, including the actual spud.

When pure gold is beaten with a mallet and made into gold leaf, the average thickness runs between 1/200,000th to 1/250,000th of an inch.

When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

When sharks bite down, their eyes automatically close in case their prey starts squirming trying to get free, and thereby cause damage to the shark's eyes in the process.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.