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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday October 27, 2003
Things you always never wanted to know
The human brain is insensitive to pain. The suffering of a headache does not come from the organ itself, but from the nerves and muscles lining it.
The strongest bone in the body, the thighbone, is hollow. Ounce for ounce, it has a greater pressure tolerance and bearing strength than a rod of equivalent size cast in solid steel.
Drinking lowers, rather than raises, body temperature. There is an illusion of heat because alcohol causes the capillaries to dilate and fill with blood. In very cold weather, drinking alcoholic beverages can lead to frostbite.
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their plantations.
There is absolutely no documented proof that Betsy Ross designed the flag of the United States.
Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Fyodor Dostoyevsky were all epileptics.
Rudyard Kipling would only write when he had black ink in his pen. Beethoven poured ice water over his head when he sat down to create music, believing it stimulated his brain. Charles Dickens wrote (and slept) facing north, aligning himself with the poles of the earth.
Queen Elizabeth I of England was completely bald. She lost her hair after suffering smallpox when she was 29 years old. To disguise her hair loss, she always wore a wig, thus creating a vogue for wigs in Europe that lasted several hundred years.
A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
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