Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday March 3, 2003
· On average, 2.7 people are killed every year by vending machines.
· Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
· During the filming of "The Shawshank Redemption," the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals objected to the scene where a maggot is fed to a crow, requesting that a maggot that had died of natural causes be used.
· Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.
· The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
· Apples are more efficient than caffeine at waking you up in the morning.
· The average person will spend two weeks in their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
· Lobsters have blue blood.
· Four is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.
· Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
· In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
· You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
· Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.
· A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
· American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.