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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, February 19, 2004
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Things you always never wanted to know

  • The official manual of the Internal Revenue Service has 38,000 pages. It has appropriately been described as "the world's most confusing publication."

  • Millions of meteorites hit the atmosphere every day and are destroyed by the friction.

  • Charles Darwin rarely used the term "evolution." It was popularized by the English sociologist Herbert Spencer, who also popularized the phrase "survival of the fittest."

  • Nature's most pervasive force ÷ gravity ÷ is also its weakest.

  • The French general whose name came to mean a strict military disciplinarian was killed by gunfire from his own men as he led a charge. General Jean Martinet beat soldiers of Louis XIV into shape by relentless drilling, and naturally, he became a hated man.

  • President Fillmore's mother feared her son might have been mentally retarded.

  • Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were heralded for being the first to climb Mount Everest. But they were accompanied by 12 climbers, 40 Sherpa guides and 700 porters.

  • There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.

  • In ancient Greece, women counted their age from the date on which they were married, not from the day they were born, signifying that the wedding marked the start of a woman's real life.

  • General Lew Wallace's best seller "Ben-Hur," published in 1880, was the first work of fiction blessed by a pope.

  • Pope John XXIII served as a sergeant in the Italian army during World War I.

  • There were at least 52 musicians in the family of Johann Sebastian Bach.


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