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Fast Facts

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By Marc Viscardi
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday April 25, 2003

· Alexander Graham was working to improve the telegraph when he invented the telephone.

· The first phone card ever issued in Japan sold for $52,430 at an auction in 1992.

· Half a billion people, about one of every eight, suffer chronic malnutrition.

· The largest box of chocolates in the world included 8,000 pieces of Disaronno Amaretto-filled chocolates. The box, assembled in New York City on Valentine's Day 2000, weighed 1,300 pounds.

· Before they were allowed to compete in the state of Indiana, boxers and wrestlers in 1954 had to swear under oath they were not communists.

· The first contraceptive diaphragm was citrus rind; such as half of an orange rind.

· Brianna Schroeder completed 48 cartwheels in one minute, giving her the world record.

· The world's longest running Web cam was set up by scientists at Cambridge University. The scientists who established it rigged up a camera that was pointed at the office coffee pot. Thanks to the Web cam, scientists no longer had to get up from their desks and walk down the hall only to discover there was no coffee left.

· Bloomers were the brainstorm of Amelia Bloom, who caused a scandal by wearing pants that exposed two inches of her ankles.


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