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Fast facts: Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years. Ostriches are such fast runners they can outrun a horse. Male ostriches can roar like a lion. Cougars can kill animals eight times their size. Cows have four stomachs. Often, when a calf is born, the farmer will make it swallow a magnet. This is to attract the various nails, staples or bits of wire that the cow may ingest while grazing. This odd hunger is known as "hardware disease." The largest species of seahorse measures 8 inches. A leech has 32 brains.

 

On this date: In 1790, the U.S. Patent system was established In 1872, the first national black convention met in New Orleans. In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major league baseball. In 1955, Ruth Ellis shot jilting lover David Blakely. In 1961, Gary Player became the first foreign golfer to win the Masters. In 1988, Herschel Walker performed the Fort Worth Ballet. In 1989, Intel Corp. announced shipment of the 80486 processor.

 

Quotable... "All you have to do is look at a couple of cable television channels who cover spring break where endless groups of drunken students get up and say 'I'm having the greatest time here' and then you recognize on the basis of these statistics what the fallout of the great time is." -Rev. Edward A. Malloy, president of the University of Notre Dame and member of a federally appointed task force that found alcohol causes 1,400 deaths on college campuses each year in the United States.