Fast facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday, February 28, 2005
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.