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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday March 7, 2003

· Seventy percent of witches are registered Republicans.

· Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.

· Thirteen boxes of jello are sold every second.

· Turtles and honeybees are both deaf.

· In a survey, U.S. children ages 8-12 could name more brands of beer than presidents.

· One million seconds is 11.5 days.

· A typical American child sees 80,000 TV commercials by the age of 16.

· One in 270 pregnancies result in identical twins.

· The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long.

· The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

· The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.

· You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

· There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

· The scientific name for your foot falling asleep is taresthesia.

· The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.

· The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from one mile away.


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