12/31/03 - Both ambidextrous and multilingual, 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand while writing Latin with the other.
12/30/03 - In 1903 the average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven.
12/29/03 - Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
12/28/03 - Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
12/27/03 - Christmas trees are edible. Many parts of pines, spruces, and firs can be eaten. The needles are a good source of vitamin C. Pine nuts, or pine cones, are also a good source of nutrition.
12/23/03 - Every year since 1947 the people in Oslo have given a Christmas tree to the city of Westminster, England. The gift is an expression of goodwill and gratitude for Britain's help to Norway in the 1939-1945 war.
12/22/03 - In 1907, Oklahoma became the last US state to declare Christmas a legal holiday.
12/21/03 - The actual gift givers are different in various countries:
Spain and South America: The Three Kings
Italy: La Befana (a kindly old witch)
England: Father Christmas
France: Pere Noel (Father Christmas)
Russia: In some parts - Babouschka (a grandmotherly figure)
Other parts it is Grandfather Frost.
Germany: Christkind (angelic messenger from Jesus)
She is a beautiful fair haired girl with a shining crown of candles.
Scandinavia: a variety of Christmas gnomes. One is called Julenisse
Holland: St Nicholas.
12/20/03 - In Britain, eating mince pies at Christmas dates back to the 16th century. It is still believed that to eat a mince pie on each of the Twelve Days of Christmas will bring 12 happy months in the year to follow.
12/19/03 - Christmas was once a moveable feast celebrated at many different times during the year. The choice of December 25, was made by Pope Julius I, in the 4th century A.D., because this coincided with the pagan rituals of Winter Solstice, or Return of the Sun. The intent was to replace the pagan celebration with the Christian one.
12/18/03 - Frumenty was a spiced porridge, enjoyed by both rich and poor. It is thought to be the forerunner of modern Christmas puddings. It has its origins in a Celtic legend of the harvest god Dagda, who stirred a porridge made up of all the good things of the Earth.
12/17/03 - The poinsettia, traditionally an American Christmas flower, originally grew in Mexico; where it was known as the "Flower of the Holy Night". It was first brought to America by Joel Poinsett in 1829.
12/16/03 - Franklin Pierce was the first United States' president to decorate an official White House Christmas tree .
12/15/03 - Candy canes began as straight white sticks of sugar candy used to decorated the Christmas trees. A choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral decided have the ends bent to depict a shepherd's crook and he would pass them out to the children to keep them quiet during the services. It wasn't until about the 20th century that candy canes acquired their red stripes.
12/14/03 - It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while mixing the Christmas pudding will come true only if the ingredients are stirred in a clockwise direction.
12/13/03 - An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.
12/12/03 - For every real Christmas tree harvested, 2 to 3 seedlings are planted in its place.
12/11/03 - The real St. Nicholas lived in Turkey, where he was bishop of the town of Myra, in the early 4th century. It was the Dutch who first made him into a Christmas gift-giver, and Dutch settlers brought him to America where his name eventually became the familiar Santa Claus.
12/10/03 - Animal Crackers are not really crackers, but cookies that were imported to the United States from England in the late 1800s. Barnum's circus-like boxes were designed with a string handle so that they could be hung on a Christmas tree.
12/09/03 - Wassail comes from the Old Norse "ves heill"... to be of good health. This evolved into the tradition of visiting neighbors on Christmas Eve and drinking to their health.
12/08/03 - Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday. This tradition began in 1836.
12/07/03 - In 1856, President Franklin Pierce decorates the first White House Christmas tree.
12/06/03 - Myrrh is an aromatic gum resin which oozes from gashes cut in the bark of a small desert tree known as Commifera Myrrha or the Dindin tree. The myrrh hardens into tear-dropped shaped chunks and is then powdered or made into ointments or perfumes. This tree is about 5-15 feet tall and 1 foot in diameter. Legend says Caspar brought the gift of myrrh from Europe or Tarsus and placed it before the Christ Child. Myrrh was an extremely valuable commodity during biblical times and was imported from India and Arabia.
12/05/03 - According to the National Christmas Tree Association, Americans buy 37.1 million real Christmas trees each year; 25 percent of them are from the nation's 5,000 choose-and-cut farms.
12/04/03 - A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
12/03/03 - Henry Bliss was the first U.S. pedestrian to be killed by a car. The driver of said car was Arthur Smith. The year was 1889.
12/01/03 - Real Christmas trees are an all-American product, grown in all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii.
11/30/03 - Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
11/29/03 - Turkey is the traditional dish for the Thanksgiving feast. In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations. There is no official reason or declaration for the use of turkey. They just happened to be the most plentiful meat available at the time of the first Thanksgiving in 1621, starting the tradition.
11/28/03 - The metal hoop that supports a lampshade is called a harp.
11/27/03 - A skunk's spray is slightly phosphorescent.
11/26/03 - The medieval Italians came up with the idea of giving diamond engagement rings to prospective brides.
11/24/03 - The 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson allowed sheep to graze on the White House lawn during World War I; their wool helped raise money for the Red Cross.
11/23/03 - In 1903 only 14 Percent of the homes in the US had a bathtub.
11/22/03 - Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of Vodka.
11/21/03 - The world's best lacemakers have been men.
11/20/03 - Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
11/19/03 - The oldest insect still around is the Silverfish.
11/18/03 - Two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered by clouds at any given time.
11/17/03 - Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
11/16/03 - The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
11/15/03 - The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
11/14/03 - The cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
11/13/03 - When driving, you blink less on a city street than on a freeway.
11/11/03 - Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.
11/10/03 - San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
11/09/03 - Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln carried letters, bills, and notes in his hat.
11/08/03 - It happens sometimes that a lion kills a baby elephant. It also happens sometimes that an elephant herd will hunt that lion down and trample it to death. It has been documented.
11/07/03 - In a pack of wolves, only one pair breeds.
11/06/03 - First U.S. president George Washington rejected a movement among army officers to make him king of the United States.
11/05/03 - The average widow lives as a widow for 25 years.
11/04/03 - A pronoid is the opposite of a paranoid. The pronoid interprets every remark and action as being in his favor. Almost all pronoids are male.
11/03/03 - Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus.
11/02/03 - Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
11/01/03 - Baby elephants kneel by water holes to drink through their mouths. Using their trunks to siphon up drinking water is something they have to learn.
10/30/03 - On July 4, 1054 AD., the sky lit up and stayed that way .. light enough to read at night, for about 3 months. A super-nova had exploded. Historians say all the world's faiths picked up converts.
10/29/03 - Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Thus the saying "Women are from Venus.. Men are from Mars. *L*
10/28/03 - Where mussels grow starfish thrive... usually.
10/27/03 - If you're nearsighted, you see the color red most clearly. If farsighted, you see blue more sharply.
10/25/03 - More than half the world's lakes are in Canada.
10/23/02 - The first novel ever written on a typewriter was *Tom Sawyer*.
10/20/03 - The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
10/17/03 - The Mayan civilization lasted six times longer than the Roman Empire.
10/16/03 - More than 50% of women over 50 have arthritis in their thumbs.
10/15/03 - A man's blood travels 168,000 miles in a day and he uses 7 million brain cells. The part about the blood might be right..
10/14/03 - No planes fly over Paris.
10/13/03 - The older you get the slower you breathe.
10/12/03 - Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
10/10/03 - It is against the law to put cake in a cookie jar in Jolliet, Illinois.
10/09/03 - All warm blooded animals dream.
10/08/03 - Baby beavers in the wild are never left alone.
10/07/03 - The hot fudge sundae was invented in 1903.
10/06/03 - One train pulled by two engines is called a "double header." It was used in railroading long before it was ever said in baseball.
10/02/03 - In Switzerland, it's not the rabbit but the cuckoo that brings the Easter eggs.
09/29/03 - If you hold a pointed object against a mirror. If the point and it's refelection touch, instead of staying a glass width apart, it's a two-way mirror. Silver is on the back of a regular mirror, on the front of a two-way.
09/27/03 - The Japanese eat a third of the world's salmon.
09/26/03 - The earliest known recipe was for beer.
09/22/03 - Woodsmen rick their firewood bark side up.
09/18/03 - Concrete doesn't dry it cures.
09/17/03 - Native homes in the Aleutians traditionally were underground with skylights made from the intestines of sea lions.
09/15/03 - No fossils are found in granite.
09/14/03 - All commercial dinner table turkeys are now created by artificial insemination.
09/13/03 - Human hair wig makers refuse to buy American hair because of the high probablility of damage from dyes, sprays, pollutants, chemicals and dryers.
09/11/03 - Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5. Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction. 2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.
09/07/03 - You are more likely to be shot, strangled or poisoned in the month of December.
09/07/03 - Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
09/06/03 - A "Painter" is an old Ozark term for cougar, puma, panther, catamount and mountain lion.
09/05/03 - Meat tenderizer takes the sting out of a bee sting.
09/04/03 - The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
09/03/03 - There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
09/02/03 - Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
08/28/03 - The hair on top of your head grows faster than the hair on the sides.
08/27/03 - In 1903 there were only about 230 reported murders in the entire US.
08/26/03 - The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
08/25/03 - In the 1830's, a good many American Indians in what is now Oklahoma owned black slaves.
08/23/03 - In 1903 most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
08/22/03 - Saba, in the Dutch West Indies is the only Carribean island with a native population that is mostly blonde.
08/21/03 - You can sharpen scissors by simply cutting sheets of emery paper with them.
08/19/03 - "Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
08/17/03 - A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
08/16/03 - In 1903 sugar cost four cents a pound, eggs were fourteen cents a dozen and coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
08/15/03 - In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
08/13/03 - Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
08/12/03 - Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
03/11/03 - You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
08/10/03 - A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
08/07/03 - In 1903 the population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30.
08/06/03 - Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
08/01/03 - In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam.'
07/28/03 - The dog days of summer begin mid-July, and end Labor Day. The dogstar Sirus rises and sets with the sun during this time.
07/27/03 - Turtles can breathe through their butts. How's that for interesting! *L*
07/26/03 - In the year 1903, marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
07/25/03 - Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
07/24/03 - Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do over again: 80% Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%
07/23/03 - In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services, two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up but no channel 1.
07/22/03 - On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
07/21/03 - After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came... head to toe.
07/19/03 - In 1903 the American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
07/17/03 - In the year 1903 Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason.
07/16/03 - In the year 1903 the maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
07/15/03 - Babies are born farsighted.
07/14/03 - A bear has 5 toes on each foot. But the big toe is where you'd expect the little toe to be and vice versa.
07/13/03 - In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
07/12/03 - Pearls melt in vinegar.
07/11/03 - All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
07/10/03 - In 1903 There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads.
07/09/03 - In 1903 a three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
07/08/03 - Teen is a Scottish word for grief.
07/07/03 - The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
07/06/03 - Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
07/05/03 - Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
07/03/03 - The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
07/02/03 - Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
07/01/03 - Spring thaw makes its way up a mountain range about 100 feet a day.
06/30/03 - Frogs have teeth.. toads don't.
06/26/03 - A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
06/24/03 - Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
06/21/03 - Belgium's weavers make such good oriental rugs that Turkey's dealers buy a lot of them to sell to tourists.
06/20/03 - One child in seven sleepwalks.
06/19/03 - The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia
06/18/03 - The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
06/15/03 - In the Dark, Middle, and Medieval ages, the Pope was the true ruler of Europe, because disobedient kings were threatened with eternal damnation.
06/14/03 - Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
06/11/03 - The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
06/07/03 - The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
06/03/03 - 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
06/02/03 - The average housefly lives for one month.
06/01/03 - Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
05/30/03 - In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
05/28/03 - People don't get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
05/27/03 - For sunburn, empty a large jar of Nestea into your bath water.
05/23/03 - John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
05/22/03 - Remove labels off glassware, etc. by rubbing with peanut butter.
05/21/03 - Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
05/20/03 - Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except The Catholic Church.
05/15/03 - Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
05/13/02 - The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
05/08/03 - Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
05/07/03 - A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
05/06/03 - Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
05/05/03 - By 1779, as many as one in seven Americans in Washington's army was black. At first Washington was hesitant about enlisting blacks. But when he heard they had fought well at Bunker Hill, he changed his mind. The all-black First Rhode Island Regiment -- composed of 33 freedmen and 92 slaves who were promised freedom if they served until the end of the war -- distinguished itself in the Battle of Newport. Later, they were all but wiped out in a British attack.
05/04/03 - May 04, 1626, Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Native Americans later sold the island (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and buttons.
05/03/03 - A snail can sleep for three years.
05/02/03 - 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
05/01/03 - On this day in 1707, England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.
04/30/03 - Apr 30, 1789, George Washington took office as first U.S. president.
04/28/03 - The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
04/27/03 - Ancient Egyptians regarded the tattoo as a sign of wealth.
04/26/03 - Most rats are right pawed.
04/25/03 - Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
04/24/03 - The real reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
04/23/03 - Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish.
04/22/03 - Benedict Arnold was the best general in the Continental Army. "Without Benedict Arnold in the first three years of the war," says the historian George Neumann, "we would probably have lost the Revolution." In 1775, the future traitor came within a whisker of conquering Canada. In 1776, he built a fleet and fought a bigger British fleet to a standstill on Lake Champlain. At Saratoga in 1777, his brilliant battlefield leadership forced the British army to surrender. The victory persuaded the French to join the war on the American side. Ironically, Arnold switched sides in 1780 partly because he disapproved of the French alliance.
04/21/03 - History's first submarine attack took place in New York Harbor in 1776. The Connecticut inventor David Bushnell called his submarine the Turtle because it resembled two large tortoise shells of equal size joined together. The watertight hull was made of 6-inch-thick oak timbers coated with tar. On September 6, 1776, the Turtle targeted the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British fleet. The submarine was supposed to secure a cask of gunpowder to the hull of the Eagle and sneak away before it exploded. Unfortunately, the Turtle got entangled with the Eagle's rudder bar, lost ballast and surfaced before the gunpowder could be planted.
04/20/03 - Meaning of YKK on zipper tabs : Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
04/19/03 - The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
04/18/03 - Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
04/17/03 - There were two Boston tea parties. Everyone knows how 50 or 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by dumping chests of the popular drink into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. Fewer know that the improper Bostonians repeated the performance on March 7, 1774. The two tea parties cost the British around $3 million in modern money.
04/16/03 - According to the U. S. Census, the population of the United States in 1860 numbered 31,443,321 persons. Of these, approximately 23,000,000 were in the 22 Northern states and 9,000,000 in the 11 Southern states. Of the latter total, 3,500,000 were slaves.
04/15/03 - The first U. S. Naval hospital ship, the Red Rover, was used on the inland waters during the Vicksburg campaign.
04/14/03 - The Americans of 1776 had the highest standard of living and the lowest taxes in the Western World! Farmers, lawyers and business owners in the Colonies were thriving, with some plantation owners and merchants making the equivalent of $500,000 a year. Times were good for many others too. The British wanted a slice of the cash flow and tried to tax the Colonists. They resisted violently, convinced that their prosperity and their liberty were at stake. Virginia's Patrick Henry summed up their stance with his cry: "Give me liberty or give me death!"
04/13/03 - The chance of surviving a wound in Civil War days was 7 to 1; in the Korean War, 50 to 1.
04/12/03 - As many as 100,000 U.S. troops were exposed to repeated low-levels of chemical warfare agents, including sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gases during the first Gulf War.
04/11/03 - Generally speaking there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane. ~ Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Rte.
04/08/03 - Total American soldiers who died defending France.. over 65,000.
04/02/03 - The term 'the whole 9 yards' came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got 'the whole 9 yards.'
03/30/03 - During WWII German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City but it wasn't worth the effort.
03/29/03 - The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
03/28/03 - The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
03/27/03 - The first, and only, woman to receive The Medal of Honor was Dr. Mary E. Walker, a contract surgeon during the Civil War.
03/26/03 - It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target, 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet, tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and theirloss rate go down. ~ Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Rte., HISTORY BUFF
03/25/03 - When allied armies reached the Rhine the first thing the men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act). ~ Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Rte., HISTORY BUFF
03/24/03 - It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
03/19/03 - Sadam Hussein has more balls than brains.
03/18/03 - Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Our luck it will be Tom Daschle.
03/17/03 - Tom Daschle is Jacques Chirac's cousin. (Just kidding!)
03/15/03 - There is no difference between white eggs and brown eggs in either nutritional quality or taste.
03/12/03 - When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart.
03/11/03 - The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
03/09/03 - For a good plant fertilizer, dry egg shells in the oven then pulverize them in a blender to make bonemeal.
03/08/03 - Only 7% of the population are left handed.
03/07/03 - Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
03/06/03 - There is more sodium in a thick shake than in an order of fries, due to the additives.
03/05/03 - Wild game is lower in fat and cholesterol. The best sources are venison, wild boar, phesant, buffalo and elk.
03/04/03 - Reindeer meat should be avoided if imported from Finland due to radiation contamination as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
03/03/03 - If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
03/02/03 - Foods on the lowest shelves in the grocery store are usually the least expensive.
03/01/03 - The Coca Cola Company purchases more sugar than any other company in the world.
02/28/03 - If you wish to avoid a hangover, remember to take your vitamin and mineral tablets during the period you are drinking. Your body tends to get depleted when you overinduldge. The following are the supplements needed to metabolize alcohol: Vitamins B1, B2, niacin, pantothenic acid and biotin. Minerals; iron, zinc, copper, manganese, magnesium, and potassium.
02/27/03 - To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste.
02/26/03 - Peanut butter will get scratches out of CD's. Wipe off with a coffee filter paper.
02/24/03 - Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
02/23/03 - The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
02/22/03 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
02/20/03 - For grease stains use Coca Cola, it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight and will take corrosion from batteries.
02/19/03 - Feb 19, 1807, Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr is arrested in Alabama for treason. Despite later being acquitted, public opinion will force him to live out the remainder of his life in privacy.
02/18/03 - To keep cut flowers fresh longer, add a little bleach or 2 Bayer aspirin, or just use 7-Up instead of water.
02/17/03 - To preserve a newspaper clipping.. 1large bottle of club soda and 1/2 cup of milk of magnesia, soak for 20 min and let dry, will last for many years.
02/16/03 - The full moon tonight is known as the "Snow Moon."
02/15/03 - Most of the water that flows over the world's highest waterfall, Angel Falls, never gets to the bottom.
01/30/03 - In Shakepeare's day, miners thought underground metals grew as seeds grow. So they shut down their operations from time to time to let said metals restart.
01/29/03 - Whales can't see straight ahead.
01/28/02 - One out of four people in hospital beds is there because of some genetic flaw.
01/27/02 - A spiders blood, when exposed to oxygen, turns blue.
01/24/03 - A mosquito hunting for victims always flies into the wind.
01/22/03 - The state with the tallest women on average is California.
01/21/03 - Your kidney's filter about a quart of blood a minute.
01/20/03 - Laboratory rats prefer cocaine to heroin 3 to 1.
01/19/03 - The flatfish called the flounder can change color to match it's surroundings.. but not if it's blind.
01/18/03 - Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II had his own harem at age 10.
01/17/03 - A coal mine typically produces 13 tons of water for every ton of coal.
01/16/03 - The claim is that no one has ever seen a frog take a drink of water.
01/15/03 - The Shanghai Light Industry College in China has come up with a medication that supposedly rids people of skin wrinkles. It's made from distilled earthworms. You drink it. I'll just deal with the wrinkles!
01/13/03 - The "catty" in "cattycorner" comes from the French "quatre" meaning "four."
01/11/03 - Pandas were originally meat eaters, scientists say, but their teeth changed as they ate bamboo, and that's their common diet now.
01/08/03 - A chameleon's tongue is hollow.
01/07/03 - Japan's pinball machines take in more money than the country spends on it's military.
01/05/03 - In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
01/04/03 - The cucumber is a fruit.
01/03/03 - A spiders blood pressure is just about the same as a human.
01/02/03 - If it's not wet, a fly can't eat it.
