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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.


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