Fastfacts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, February 20, 2004
Things you always never wanted to know
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the fathers of communism, wrote 500 articles for the New-York Daily Tribune from 1851 to 1862.
In 1978, drivers in Connecticut killed more than 1,000 deer, compared to 948 killed by hunters.
One pound of anything, when completely converted into energy, will produce 11,400 million kilowatt-hours of energy, according to Einstein's equation in which energy equals mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light.
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than the sun's surface.
Arctic terns, a type of bird found in North America and the Arctic, migrate as far south as Antarctica and back, traveling more than 18,000 miles.
An ostrich egg, at 6 to 8 inches long, takes 40 minutes on average to hard-boil because of its size and the thickness of its shell.
The word mile comes from the term "milia," which was equal to 1,000 paces made by a Roman legionnaire.
Charles Babbage, who thought out key principles that guide modern computers, invented the skeleton key and the locomotive "cow-catcher."
England and Portugal have never been at war with each other. It is probably the longest unbroken peace between two countries.
At sea level, there are 2,000 pounds of air pressure on each square foot of your body area.
Mars can reach 80 degrees during the day, but drops down to 190 degrees below zero at night.