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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday October 14, 2003
Things you always never wanted to know
In the late 19th century, it was the fashion among many English women to wear gold rings through their nipples. In an 1899 edition of the British Journal Society, fascinating details are given about this peculiar fad. The woman who wished to wear such ornaments, the magazine said, had holes bored through her nipples and thin golden rings threaded through the holes. It was believed that wearing such rings made the breasts fuller and rounder, and that the rings were a stimulating sight for men when exposed. The operation was performed not by doctors, but by jewelers, much the way ear piercing is done today.
The first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names. It was published in New Haven, Conn., by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February 1878.
There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
The cowboy movie star Tom Mix drove a Rolls-Royce that had a pair of antlers as a radiator cap. Mix once ordered tires for his limousine with his initials printed in relief. At that time, Hollywood was connected by a network of dirt roads ÷ whenever Mix drove along one of these roads he would leave a long trail of "TM"s imprinted in the dust.
The Cleveland Indians were named in honor of Louis Sockolexis, a native Maine Indian who was the first American Indian to play professional baseball. Before it became the Indians, the Cleveland team was known as the Spiders.
In 1928, E. Romer of Germany crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon, Portugal, to the West Indies in a kayak. The trip took him 58 days.
The first railroad in America had wooden tracks. It was built by Thomas Leiper in 1809 in Crown Creek, Penn.
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