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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
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300
Wives kept by King Aziz Ibn Saud, who ruled Saudi Arabia from 1932 until his death in 1953.

318,979,564,000
Possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess.

2,500,000
Rivets that secure the Eiffel Tower.

1,290 ft.
The distance below sea level at which the Jordan River enters the Dead Sea.

7,100
Islands that make up the Philippines. Its total land area is about that of Arizona

314
Acres of trees used to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

4.3
Light years that separate us from Alpha Centauri, the second-closest star to the Earth.

100,000
A conservative estimate of the number of soldiers addicted to opium by the end of the U.S. Civil War.

400
Volts that make up the average discharge from an electric eel.

$28,702,848
Amount awarded in scholarships to 10,900 recipients at the UA in the 2002-2003 academic year.

$5,755
Rent for an entire academic year in a single room at the Villa Del Puente Residence Hall.



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