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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.


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