By Marc Viscardi
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday March 5, 2003
· 23% of all photocopier faults are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
· In 1985, an Arkansas boy grew a 260-pound watermelon.
· The heaviest dog on record is a St. Bernard that weighed 310 pounds.
· A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
· 56% of the typing done by an average person is done with the left hand.
· In the film "Forrest Gump," during a sequence set around 1970, someone is shown reading a copy of USA Today. The newspaper wasn't created until 1982.
· In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5,070.
· One in four children aged between 4 and 8 years old is unable to tell the time from the hands of a clock. One in four 6 to 8-year-olds doesn't know that there are 24 hours in a day.
· Oscar Wilde's last words were, allegedly, "Either that wallpaper goes or I do."
· Taking into account their respective weights, hamburgers cost more than cars.
· Michael Jordan gets more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
· A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot tall child inside.
· Gene Kelly had a 103-degree fever when he danced the title song to "Singing In The Rain."
· Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
· More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.