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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Things you always never wanted to know
The teeth of the tiger shark rest on springs. When the shark's mouth is closed, the teeth are pressed firmly back against the gums. When the mouth is opened, the teeth spring out, ready for action.
Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride in a railroad train. The first to use a telephone was James Garfield. Theodore Roosevelt was the first to ride in an automobile.
The pilgrims in Massachusetts used a special tool in church, a wooden ball attached to a long stick. If anyone fell asleep during a sermon (which might go on for seven or eight hours) a specially appointed member of the clergy would hoist the pole over the reprobate's head and clop him with the wooden ball.
During the Middle Ages , German men went to the barber to take a bath as well as to shave.
The 16th century Indian emperor Akbar often used real dancing girls as chess pieces and an entire garden as a chessboard. Akbar sat high in a marble tower calling each move from his throne and watching the beautiful living pieces whirl from square to square. Two centuries later, in Madras, India, visitors witnessed an equally remarkable sight in the court of the maharajah - chessmen over 25 feet tall, mounted on wheeled platforms and pulled across a giant chessboard by teams of 50 men.
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