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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday February 25, 2003

· Cat urine glows under a black light.

· All of the clocks in "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

· On a Canadian $2 bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

· All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

· On the new $100 bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

· "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

· The word "byte" is a contraction of "by eight."

· The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in 16 rows.

· The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

· Almonds are members of the peach family.

· The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

· The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

· Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

· The largest city in the United States with a one-syllable name is Flint, Michigan.


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