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Fast facts: A drop of water may travel thousands of miles between the time it evaporates into the atmosphere and the time it falls to the Earth again as rain, sleet or snow. The flesh of the puffer fish - fugu - is considered a delicacy in Japan. In early America, simple wooden beds and straw mattresses were the rule in all but the wealthiest of homes. Since housecats are clean and their coats are dry and glossy, their fur easily becomes charged with electricity. Sparks can be seen if their fur is rubbed in the dark. The Egyptian vulture, a white bird about the size of a raven, throws stones with its beak to open ostrich eggs to eat.

 

On this date: In 1825, in New York City, Rossini's "Barber of Seville" was presented, making it the first Italian opera presented in the United States. In 1887, the United States received rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii In 1895, America's first race featuring gasoline-powered automobiles was held in Chicago, Illinois In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to a distant cousin named Franklin, saying he approved of Franklin's intended marriage to the president's niece, Eleanor. In 1929, after finishing his first flight over the North Pole on the same day in 1926, Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd flew over the South Pole.

 

Quotable... "All of this is false. I have nothing to do with this thing." - Mounir El Motassadeq, 27, the first person arrested in Germany with a direct link to the Sept. 11 hijackers on the accusation that he is involved in terrorist activity.