By Marc Viscardi
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday April 8, 2003
· The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house.
· NRA Life Member John F. Kennedy was shot by ACLU Life Member Lee Harvey Oswald.
· The garfish has green bones.
· Work of an artist cannot be exhibited in the Louvre until he or she has been dead for at least sixty years.
· Christopher Columbus was blond.
· Louis XIV owned 413 beds.
· The smell of a skunk is detectable by humans nearly a mile away.
· In 1924, a Ford cost $265.
· In NYC, over 6,000 traffic tickets per year are given to cars belonging to federal agencies.
· More than 300,000 American teenagers become infected with a venereal disease each year.
· Before 1863, the Postal Service was free.
· In the U.S., more steel is used in the production of bottle caps than automobile bodies.
· The Mormon leader Brigham Young had 27 wives.
· In 1977, more abortions were performed than tonsillectomies in the US.
· The "Star-Spangled Banner" did not become the official anthem of the United States until 1931.
· Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.