Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday February 21, 2003
· The biggest recorded bubble ever blown with bubble gum was 22 inches in diameter.
· Every day, people around the world drink more than 300 million Cokes.
· In Scotland, a game was invented called "Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden." This is where we get the name "Golf."
· Bulletproof vests, fire escapes and windshield wipers were all invented by women.
· Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
· 40 percent of people admit to snooping in a medicine cabinet at a party.
· The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet.
· There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the United States than real ones.
· Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
· There are more chickens in the world than people.
· A typist's fingers travel over 12 and a half miles in an average day.
· 2,500 left-handers die each year using products designed for right-handers.
· The Roman Catholic Church did not officially acknowledge the Earth revolves around the sun until the mid-1990s.
· The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
· The world's most common non-contagious disease is tooth-decay.
· The only words in the English language to contain two "U's" back-to-back are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
· The only word in the English language to contain three back-to-back double-letter combinations is bookkeeper.