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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday February 24, 2003

· The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

· A can of SPAM is opened every four seconds.

· The McDonald's at Toronto's Sky Dome is the only McDonald's location that sells hot dogs.

· An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.

· Ernest Wright wrote a novel with 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter "e."

· A donkey will sink in quicksand, while a mule will not.

· The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

· In an average day, a four-year-old child will ask 437 questions.

· Teapots injure more than 4,000 people every year.

· The short phrases of organ music played at a baseball game are called "tuckets."

· Every year, the moon moves half an inch further from earth.

· In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.

· There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates.

· In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.

· A deltiologist is someone who collects postcards.

· Despite a population of more than one billion, China has only about 200 family names.

· In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age of marriage for girls to 12.

· In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.


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