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By Marc Viscardi
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday May 5, 2003

· Motley Crue was kicked out of Germany in 1984. The band was in trouble for throwing mattresses out of hotel windows and watching them bounce of off cars.

· Elvis was awarded an honorary Narcotics Bureau badge in 1970 by President Nixon. Elvis visited him at the White House and told the president that he had been studying drug culture for 10 years.

· If you were to rub garlic on the heel of your foot, it would be absorbed by the pores and eventually show up in your breath.

· The Chevy Nova was not sold in South America because "no va" means "It doesn't go" in Spanish.

· A challenging putt on a hilly green in golf is often called a Dolly Parton.

· Arizona's Maricopa County boasts the most golf courses in the country, with 168.

· Until 1937, a jump ball was thrown after every basket in the game of basketball.

· Elwood Edwards' voice is heard more than 27 million times a day, and more than 18,000 times a minute. He is the voice behind "You've got mail."

· Helen Keller, blind and deaf from a very early age, developed her such a keen sense of smell that she could recognize her friends by their personal odors.

· The back of your hand is called an "opisthenar."

· Ferdinand Porsche, who later went on to build the famous cars bearing his name, designed the original 1936 Volkswagen.

· Honey is the only food that does not spoil. It has been found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs, tasted by archaeologists and deemed edible.


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