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Illustration by Arnie Bermudez
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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday November 4, 2003
Pooler Jones, Lazy Plate, Jayne Hill, Untorn Ribbon, Buckthorn, Barber Perfect and Underwood Tack are all names for various types of barbed wire.
In St. John, New Brunswick, there is a waterfall that flows upward. The Reversing Falls of St. John are located on a gorge that leads into the Bay of Fundy. At low tide, the water from the gorge comes cascading down on its way to the bay. At high tide, however, which in this part of the world is excessive, the bay's water level rises 5 feet higher than that of the river itself. That causes a "bore," or rushing tide, to flow back into the river, and thus it pushes the water back up the falls.
The salt in seawater comes primarily from the fresh water that flows into the sea. As streams and rivers flow across the land, they absorb a great deal of salt from rocks and the earth, and they carry this salt out to sea. There the fresh water evaporates and leaves the salt deposits behind.
Anne Boleyn, one of two unfortunate wives of Henry VIII sent to die in the Tower of London, had six toes on one foot, six fingers on one hand and three breasts. In medical terminology the condition of having more than two breasts is known as "polymazia."
Charlemagne (A.D. 742-814) early king of France, was the greatest warrior king of his time, stood 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed almost 275 pounds. He had extremely muscular arms and legs, was the finest hunter and rider at his court, and could kill a man with a single blow of his fist. Yet he spoke in a voice so high and squeaky that his contemporaries compared it to the voice of a 12-year-old.
The amount of nicotine the average pack-a-day smoker inhales in a week ÷ 400 milligrams ÷ would kill a person instantly if it were taken in all at once.
Sports fans in Brazil sometimes become so impassioned that a wide moat was built around the playing field of Rio's 180,000-seat Maraca–a Stadium. The moat keeps the crowd from running onto the filed, molesting the players and attacking the referees.
The country of Tonga once issued a stamp shaped like a banana.
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