Illustration by Arnie Bermudez

Things you always never wanted to know

· The longest snowboarding vertical descent was recorded on April 20, 1998 when Tammy McMinn from the USA successfully snowboarded down a slope in British Colombia, Canada 101 times. The vertical descent total was a whopping 305,539 feet. To beat that in Tucson, one would have to snowboard down Mt. Lemmon, which from the base to the top is approximately 6,077 feet tall, 51 times.

· The longest verified legs award officially goes to Sam Stacey of the United Kingdom. At age 17 in Jan. 2001, her legs measured 49.75 inches. At 6 feet, 4 inches tall, her legs make up 65 percent of her height.

· Hungry? The worse famine recorded happened in the People's Republic of China from 1959-1961 when 40,000,000 died from malnutrition due to the failed new farming practices under Chairman Mao.

· If you are bored in class, consider this. If you wanted to play each of the approximately 100 million Game Boys in the world for 60 seconds without stopping, it would take about 190 years.

· On Nov. 16, 2000, Norman Shelley paid for the most expensive single purchase of whisky. He dropped $341,154 for 76 bottles of The Macallan malt whisky.

· The longest distance flown by a pigeon in a competitive career is 25,508 miles between 1990 and 1997. This champion is a blue-check hen named Brazilian Beauty, owned by Robert Koch. If only all the pigeons around here would fly that far away from campus.

· When you have an operation, you don't think you will die and then recover. It happened to Rudolph A. Cizmar (USA), twice. During surgery on Sept. 16, 1999, his heart stopped beating two times, requiring electric shocks to restore his heart rhythm.