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Fast Facts

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By Marc Viscardi
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday April 7, 2003

· A law in Fairbanks, Alaska, does not allow moose to have sex on city streets.

· Butterflies taste with their feet.

· Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

· In 1947, Marilyn Monroe was chosen as the first California Artichoke Queen. She had no competition for the title.

· Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.

· Squid can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.

· For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.

· Fresca, the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in Mexico ÷ Fresca is slang for lesbian.

· Tomato juice is the official state beverage for Ohio.

· Dildo is a town in Newfoundland, Canada.

· Pianist Cella Delavrancea is the oldest professional pianist to perform. At the age of 103, she gave a performance that had six encores.

· One million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the NYC metropolitan area.

· There are fewer than one million college graduates in the US every year.

· Mickey Mouse has only four fingers.

· The amount of energy expended during sex is comparable to the energy used when climbing two flights of stairs.

· It is possible for a fetus to hiccup in the womb.

· The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.


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