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.