Hello Dr. Crutchfield,
Thank you for a fun question!
According to the following posting, the book Big Secrets by William
Poundstone contains the secret recipes you mentioned in your question.
?Actually, I have a book at home called "Big Secrets" which gives the
secret ingredient to many of the foods we eat. For instance, those 11
herbs and spices of KFC? They're all common stuff(no biggie, except
for a little msg). It also explains Coke's secret "7x" ingredient, but
spectroanalysis comes up inconclusive(but we know it is a hydrocarbon
complex!).
And I do believe it has Dr Pepper's formula in there too?
http://flare.solareclipse.net/cgi2/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=11;t=000066;p=0
Big Secrets by William Poundstone
The Book That Gives the Inside Story on Hundreds of Secrets of
American Life --Big Secrets.
Colonel Sanders boasted that Kentucky Fried Chicken's eleven secret
herbs and spices "stand on everybody's shelf." We got a sample of the
seasoning mix and sent it to a food chemist for analysis.
?Are there really secret backward messages in rock music, or is
somebody nuts? We tested suspect tunes at a recording studio to find
out.
What goes on at Freemason initiations? Here's the whole story,
including -- yes! -- the electric carpet.
Feverish rumor has it that Walt Disney's body was frozen and now lies
in a secret cryonic vault somewhere beneath the Pirates of the
Caribbean exhibit at Disneyland. Read the certified
stranger-than-fiction truth.
Don't bother trying to figure out how Doug Henning, David Copperfield,
and Harry Blackstone, Jr., perform their illusions. Big Secrets has
complete explanations and diagrams, nothing left to the imagination.?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688048307/104-9353127-0396731?v=glance
The book Bigger Secrets might be of your interest as well.
Bigger Secrets: More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out
by William Poundstone
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395530083/104-9353127-0396731?v=glance
Below you will find a selection of books and websites with fun,
whacky, and interesting facts.
The Ultimate : The Great Armchair Debates Settled Once and for All
by WILLIAM POUNDSTONE
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385242700/ref=pd_sim_b_4/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
2,201 Fascinating Facts: 2 Vols. in One
by David Louis
Product Description:
Did you know that:
?in 1740 a cow was found guilty of sorcery in France and publicly hanged?
?the principality of Monaco consists of only 370 acres?
?the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows?
?there are ten million bricks in the Empire State Building?
These intriguing facts and 2197 more like them are collected here to
delight, entertain, educate and astonish trivia buffs, esoterica
experts, information addicts and anyone else with a passion for
collecting odd bits of knowledge.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517395746/qid=1105205751/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_11/104-9353127-0396731?v=glance&s=books
The Straight Dope
by CECIL ADAMS
The Straight Dope books are some of the best trivia books out there
today - they cover all sorts of odds and ends from animals, media,
sports to other abnormal oddities
The Straight Dope is the first in the grouping and covers all sorts of
inane topics such as: What does the 'H' stand for in Jesus H. Christ?
Why do pigeons bob their heads? Is it true what they say about
Catherine the Great and the horse? Why is there no Channel One?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345333152/ref=pd_sbs_b_2/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Oh, Yuck: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty
by Joy Masoff
Masoff presents a delightful compendium of facts about things that are
gross, putrid, and stomach turning. Covering more than 50 topics from
A to Z, she reveals the truth about some unsavory mysteries of the
human body, such as acne, body lint, eye gunk, farts, halitosis, snot,
and vomit. Odious creatures such as cockroaches, lice, maggots, rats,
and slugs are also discussed. Other subjects include "Cannibals,"
"Gross Grub," "Mucky Medicine," and "Toilets."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0761107711/qid=1105205266/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-9353127-0396731?v=glance&s=books
Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott
From Publishers Weekly
Ever wonder how one ties a sari? Or who makes the Queen of England's
pork sausages? How about which three films managed to take all five of
the top Oscar awards (picture, director, actress, actor and
screenplay), or which Burmese kings died "curious deaths"? Answers to
these questions and hundreds more can be found in this delightfully
eclectic collection of facts, diagrams, quotations and symbols.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582343497/qid=1105205266/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-9353127-0396731?v=glance&s=books
50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know
by Russ Kick
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0971394288/qid=1105205266/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/104-9353127-0396731?v=glance&s=books
Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany
by Ben Schott
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582344205/qid=1105205266/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-9353127-0396731?v=glance&s=books
Useless Knowledge: Answers to Questions You'd Never Think to Ask
by Joe Edelman, David Samson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312290179/ref=pd_sim_b_3/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement
to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime,
Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
by RICHARD ZACKS
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385483767/ref=pd_sbs_b_4/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
10,000 Answers : The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia
by Stanley Newman, Hal Fittipaldi
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/037571944X/ref=pd_sim_b_5/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Know It All!
by ED ZOTTI
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345362322/ref=pd_sim_b_4/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts by ISAAC ASIMOV
?Within the pages of Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts are many hours of
entertaining and informative reading?little-known facts that will make
you exclaim, time and again, "I didn't know that!"
Here are some of the intriguing facts you will find in this book:
-Emperor Caligula appointed his favorite horse as a consul of Rome.
-Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
-For distances of up to 150 feet, an alligator can outrace a man.
-In 1896, two men rowed across the Atlantic.
-The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on
each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
-Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital.?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517065037/ref=pd_sim_b_2/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Ever Wonder Why?
by DOUGLAS B. SMITH
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449147460/ref=pd_sim_b_1/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Quizzing: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Didn't Know Where
to Look (The Ultimate Trivia Book)
by Ranjit Thomas
Hundreds of questions on a variety of topics - art, business,
discoveries, films, literature, mathematics, music, mythology, sports,
war, and lots of others; things you knew, didn't know (and thought you
knew but didn't!) You'll never have a dull moment with this
extraordinary compendium of fascinating facts, interesting
information, and tantalizing trivia.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595005713/qid=1105206204/sr=1-14/ref=sr_1_14/104-9353127-0396731?v=glance&s=books
The Uncyclopedia
by Gideon Haigh
How do you flirt in Turkish? How do you dump someone in Japanese? What
are the names of all the animals ever sent into space? These are just
some of the fun and insightful oddities that made Gideon Haigh's The
Uncyclopedia a hit overseas. The first ever encyclopedia for the
curious, The Uncyclopedia is a compendium of illuminating knowledge
and a delight for all inquisitive readers.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1401301533/ref=pd_sbs_b_2/104-9353127-0396731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
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Websites
Trivia about the human body
72 Facts
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/h-triv.html
Human Body Trivia
http://home.bitworks.co.nz/trivia/body.htm
Amazing Facts By Kathy Kukula
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/headsup/brain/index.asp?article=brain_facts
More Amazing FActs
http://www.scienceyear.com/wired/index.html?page=/wired/facts/super.html
Brain Facts
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ffacts.html
The straight dope
http://www.straightdope.com/
Columns
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/
Sleep FActs
http://abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm
Amazing facts about the human body
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides/bodies.html
20 Little Known Facts About The Human Body
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/science/trivia/human/
Useless Information
http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/index.html
Dr. Walker's Amazing Body Facts
http://www.openinghumanpotential.com/facts.html
Snopes: Urban Legends Reference Pages
http://www.snopes.com/
Amazing Facts About our Body
http://www.meaningoflife.i12.com/body.htm
Amazing Heart Facts
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/facts.html
Little known Details of being Human
http://www.fukkad.com/trivia/human.shtml
Amazing facts about the human body
http://www.northcoast.com/~discover/kids_invent_af3.html
Weight loss Facts
http://forums.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art6351.asp
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