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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, January 30, 2004
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Things you always never wanted to know
It was proposed in the Rhode Island Legislature in the 1970s to have a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse.
A U.S. television network's dramatic representation of the trial of Nazi judges was sponsored by the natural gas industry. The word "gas" was excised from the script, but a few "gases" slipped by. Those had to be blipped by technicians before the program was broadcast.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales were greeted by bad reviews, calling the stories "·quite unsuitable for children" and "positively harmful for the mind."
Cows do not have upper front teeth.
A mole can dig a 300-foot tunnel in a single night.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
In Georgia, it is illegal to change the clothes on a storefront mannequin unless the shades are drawn.
Scientists on the cutting edge have recently developed cholesterol-free mice, bisexual butterflies and the "perfect" slice of buttered toast.
In 1977, less than 9 percent of physicians in the United States were women.
Though popularly thought to have been an Egyptian, Cleopatra was a Macedonian, the daughter of Ptolemy XI. She married two of her brothers and was the mistress of both Caesar and Mark Antony.
During the American Revolution, many brides did not wear white wedding gowns. Instead, they wore red as a symbol of rebellion.
The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse.
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