- Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
- Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague.
- Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery fiction's first fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
- Edison tried to invent a gun-powder powered engine for a helicopter - he blew up his lab, and decided to stop work on that project.
- Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.
- Eighty per cent of all body heat escapes through the head.
- Einstein got his wife to agree to divorce him by offering her the money he would hopefully some day receive if he ever won a Nobel Prize for one or more of his papers he wrote in 1905.. Apparently, she must have thought he had a good shot at it too someday, because, after thinking it over for a week, she accepted. She ended up having to wait until 1921, but eventually got the money.
- El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 -- the hottest ever measured.
- Elizabeth Blackwell, born in Bristol, England on 3 February 1821, was the first woman in America to gain an M.D. degree.
- Elizabeth I, thought it was ill bred to make music in public.
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