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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday March 10, 2003

· After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by 33 percent in the United States.

· Eighty-five percent of people can curl their tongues into a tube.

· The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

· 1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and right side-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible will be 6009.

· In the next 12 months, 2,488,200 books will be shipped with the wrong cover.

· Having sex burns 360 calories per hour.

· In developing nations, 80 percent of diseases are water- related.

· There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only 22 people.

· The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

· The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance.

· Until the 1960s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

· In New Mexico, over 11,000 people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.

· On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."


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