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Fast facts: DEREKH FROUDE/Arizona Daily Wildcat Nursing senior Heather Evans serves up a bun full of mini veggie burgers for the Great American Meat-Out, which took place yesterday on the Mall. Evans coordinated the event, where members of Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals gave out free vegan food to raise awareness about the benefits of an animal-friendly diet. The most destructive tornado on record occurred in Annapolis, Missouri. In 3 hours, it tore through the town on March 18, 1925, leaving a 980-foot-wide trail of demolished buildings, uprooted trees and overturned cars. The tornado left 823 people dead and almost 3,000 injured. Pollen grains are so tiny and uniform that they have been used to calibrate instruments that measure in thousandths of an inch. Forget-me-not pollen grains are so small that 10,000 of them can fit on the head of a pin. The most drought-resistant tree is the baobab tree. It stores 35,900 gallons of water in its trunk for later use. The North Atlantic Deep Water Current is an oceanic "river" that carries twenty times more water than all the rivers of the world put together. The onion is a lily, botanically.

 

On this date: In 1857, an earthquake hit Tokyo, killing about 107,000 people. In 1891, a Hatfield married a McCoy, ending the long feud in West Virginia. The feud started with an accusation of pig stealing and lasted 20 years. In 1917, Loretta Walsh was named the first female U.S. Navy Petty Officer. In 1943, an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler failed. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to declare allegiance to the United States. In 1975, Ethiopia ended its monarchy after 3,000 years. In 1980, J.R. Ewing was shot on the TV show "Dallas." In 1994, Dudley Moore was arrested for hitting his girlfriend.

 

Quotable... "I had the honor to organize (this attack), and I want to tell the Israelis that as long as Sharon is killing Palestinians, we in Islamic Jihad will kill Israelis." - Mahmoud Tawalbi, head of a militant Palestinian group in the West Bank town of Jenin.