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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.


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