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.