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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday April 14, 2003

· Americans currently drink nearly 35 billion glasses, or seven gallons per person, of iced tea every year.

· "Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

· The airplane in which Buddy Holly died was the "American Pie," hence the name of the Don McLean song.

· The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year; when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

· The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver."

· A parrot's intelligence is comparable to a 5-year-old child.

· In Connorsville, Wis., no man shall shoot off a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm.

· The average speed of ejaculation is 28 miles per hour. The average speed of a city bus is 25 miles per hour.

· By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons in primary school.

· If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end, because of the rate of reproduction.

· One out of 10 people in the world live on an island.

· John Jay, the first U.S. chief justice, bought slaves in order to free them.


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