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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, January 22, 2004
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Things you always never wanted to know
Ostriches are the fastest animals on two legs, and can maintain a speed of 45 mph for 30 minutes.
More than 30 people die in elevator-related accidents each year in the United States.
On Oct. 17, 1814, a ruptured brewery tank in London spilled 3,500 barrels of beer, causing a flood that demolished two houses and drowned nine people.
There are 22 bones in the human head.
365 different languages are spoken in Indonesia.
A shot of espresso has less caffeine than a cup of coffee.
There are 92 known cases of nuclear warheads lost at sea.
About 800 movies are produced in India annually, about twice the number of movies coming out of Hollywood.
If you hit a diamond with a hammer, the hammer will shatter.
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips lasting less than 50 minutes.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than there are living flamingos.
Sometime in 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
"Auld Lang Syne" roughly translated means "days now in the past."
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