- 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.
- Very hard rain would pour down at the rate of about twenty miles per hour.
- Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language - 823 words without a period
- Victorian women tried to enlarge their breasts by bathing in strawberries.
- Virginia Woolf wrote most of her work standing up.
- Walt Disney originally supplied the voice for his character 'Mickey Mouse'.
- Walt Disney's first cartoon character was called Oswald the Rabbit.
- 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.
- Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt are the four US presidents whose faces are carved on Mt. Rushmore.
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