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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday, February 28, 2005
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Things you always never wanted to know

  • Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4 - John Hancock and Charles "Chuck" Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Aug. 2, but the last signature wasn't added until five years later.

  • The youngest pope was 11 years old.

  • The average number of people airborne over the United States in any given hour is 61,000.

  • Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people that walk to work.

  • The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime-time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

  • U.S. money is made from woven linen, not paper.

  • Between 1947 and 1959, 42 nuclear devices were detonated on the Marshall Islands.

  • During a hunt, a polar bear will cover its black nose with its paws, providing it with maximum camouflage.

  • The face of a penny can hold about 30 drops of water.

  • The hieroglyph for "100,000" is a tadpole.

  • Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese.

  • During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.

  • The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.

  • Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an ice pick.

  • The Russian Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter aircraft with a toilet in it.


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