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EMILY REID/Arizona Daily Wildcat Groundskeeper Ruben Alvarez assists the wind in blowing tree trimmings off the sidewalk yesterday outside the Park Student Union. Fast facts: Parrots, the most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than 20 words. However, Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been known to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words. The largest order of mammals, with about 1,700 species, is rodents. Bats are second with about 950 species. In Milwaukee during the 1900s, 12,500 horses in the city left an estimated 133 tons of manure and urine on the streets per year. The largest known egg ever laid by a creature was that of the extinct Aepyornis of Madagascar. The egg was 9.5 inches long. It had a volume of 2.35 gallons. The burrowing boodie of Australia is the only kangaroo in the world that lives underground.

 

On this date: In 1541, Hernan de Soto observed the first recorded flood in America at the Mississippi River. In 1890 , the first U.S. state naval militia was organized in Massachusetts. In 1899, Phoebe, a moon of Saturn, was discovered by William Henry Pickering. In 1911, North Dakota enacted a hail-insurance law. In 1959, the Boston Celtics' Bill Sharman began a then-record of 56 straight free throws made. In 1989, the California Quake amusement ride opened at Universal Studios. In 1992, Donna Summer got a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

 

Quotable... "Third-party applications that rely on (the removed Windows software) will stop working as they're supposed to. It's going to create new security vulnerabilities in the Windows product because as people move code they're going to create holes in the software. At the end of the day it wouldn't offer any benefits that would make those problems justifiable." - Brad Smith, Microsoft's incoming general counsel, about states pushing for laws that require the software giant to allow for other software to integrate with Windows if a consumer so chooses to replace the Microsoft aspect of the operating system.