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The phrase negative calorie food is used to refer to foods that require more energy to digest than they provide nutritionally. No food can literally have negative calories in the sense of not releasing energy when digested. However, some foods provide very few calories, and the body may use up more energy to digest them than it gains. The result is a net calorie deficit.

Negative calorie foods: Asparagus, Cabbage, Celery, Lime, Watermelon to…

We now have 14 members of the useless fact group!

Have You ever wondered exactly why it is that we drive on the left? While the majority of other countries drive on the right.

This goes back hundreds of years, and well before the roads were made of Tarmacadam. Other than Carters transporting goods, the main users of roads would have been on horseback. As most people are right handed, it would be natural to pass an oncoming rider with the sword hand to the side of that person in order to defend…

Latest comment by Steve28 8 months ago

Yet, Medieval jousting was the opposite as the shield was in the left hand and the lance was in the…

As its the first official day of Your Mail, I thought it would be appropriate to share some computer/internet facts with you:

ENIAC, the first all-electronic computer, was introduced in 1946.

The Internet has been around since the 1960’s.

Banner ads first appeared in 1994.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

"Surfing" the Web – this phrase was coined in 1992.

Lynx was one of the earliest browsers from…

Since I’m longing for snow and getting nothing but rain here’s some snow facts:

Icehotel Jukkasjärvi, Sweden.

Ten thousand years ago, glaciers carved a riverbed and the Torne River was born. Since then, the crystal-clear, pure water of the Torne River has flowed freely along its 600-kilometer path through Lapland out to the sea in the southeast.

The entire Icehotel is on loan from the mighty Torne River and is a place where time stands…

Latest comment by Robbo 8 months ago

Some extreme weather facts…

Close to 2,000 thunderstorms are going on around the world this very…

July 28 1945 at 9:49 AM a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City.

Betty Lou Oliver was injured in the crash and after being stabilized was placed in an elevator to go to a waiting ambulance.

Unfortunately the plane severed the safety cables and they snapped and the elevator started to fall.

1000 feet later, after plunging 75 stories Betty Lou Oliver set the world record for the longest survived elevator fall…

Latest comment by Red 9 months ago

sounds like something from a cartoon!

Did you know:

There’s 1079000 friesian cows alive in the world

Highland Cattle can be found foraging 10,000 feet up in the Andes

Cows are Gary Larson’s (Far Side) favorite subject for humour.