Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday April 2, 2003
· The average person goes to the bathroom six times per day.
· The nine of hearts is the playing card that symbolizes love.
· The Library of Congress, built in 1897, contains 327 miles of bookshelves.
· The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps.
· The first issue of Playboy cost 50 cents.
· Boston had the first subway in the U.S.
· The first TV dinner included turkey, sweet potatoes and peas.
· The Great Wall of China is 50 feet high, 26 feet wide and 1,500 miles long.
· Kodak is the world's largest user of silver.
· Winston Churchill was the first person ever made an honorary citizen of the U.S.
· A capon is a castrated rooster.
· The largest one-person residence in the world is the Vatican.
· A deltiologist collects postcards.
· The oldest city in the U.S. is St. Augustine, Fla.
· In 1968, Arthur Frommer said that one could get by on five dollars a day in Europe.
· The average eyebrow contains 550 hairs.
· Leadville, Colorado is the highest city in the U.S.
· There are 19 cherubs on a Trivial Pursuit board.
· 4Tokyo is home to the world's largest bowling alley.
· The first Olympics broadcast on television were in 1956.
· Opposite faces on a die always add up to seven.