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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday March 31, 2003

· Starbucks pays $150,000 a year to be the official coffee of the University of Washington athletic teams.

· By 2001, "The AIDS Quilt" weighed more than 50 tons and could cover 16 football fields.

· The U.S. is the only country that uses electrocution or lethal gas for executions.

· Hungary has matching salt and paprika shakers on every restaurant table.

· The Florida Marlins were the first major league baseball team to feature teal in their uniforms.

· Bill Gates' Medina, Washington home has over 48,160 square feet, and is worth more than $113.5 million.

· Courtney Love was arrested after screaming, "I said UNSALTED nuts," at an airline flight attendant.

· Golf is the only sport that players call penalties on themselves.

· In 2000, roughly 4 percent, or $796 million of Blockbuster's $4.2 billion rental income came from late fees.

· New York was the first state to ban drivers from talking on cell phones.

· Table tennis made its Olympic debut in 1988.

· In Lindvallen, Sweden, you can "ski-through" a McDonald's.

· In a 2001 survey of nearly five thousand navels, blue was "almost always" the color of belly button lint.


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