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Fast Facts

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By Marc Viscardi
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday March 24, 2003

· There were 43,687 toilet-related accidents in the United States in 1996.

· Business.com is the most expensive domain name. It was sold for $7.5 million.

· Cleveland is the home of the first traffic light. It was put into effect on August 5, 1914.

· The average amount of a gift certificate purchase is $65.

· Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller was the world's first billionaire.

· The largest employer in the world is the railway system in India, which employs over one million people.

· There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.

· Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-36.

· Wyoming was first state to give women the right to vote.

· Cases that involve automobiles take up more than half of the time spent in United States courts.

· If you were to bend all the tubing of the French horn into one long tube, it would stretch over 12 feet.

· The famous bullfighter Lagarijo killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.

· Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas.

· Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.

· A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.

· The average person falls asleep in seven seconds.

· Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."


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