Fast facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday, March 7, 2005
Things you always never wanted to know
The average person will catch 140 colds in a lifetime.
You won't get a bellyache from eating a green apple, as long as you chew it completely. The stomach doesn't know the difference between ripe and unripe apples.
We call it the "French kiss" but in the French tongue it's called the "English kiss."
A giraffe has a 17-inch tongue.
Scientists say that sharks are 10 times more likely to attack a man than a woman.
Every day, Americans flush about 6.8 billion gallons of water down their toilets.
Cows can be identified by nose prints.
Your hearing is not as sharp on a full stomach.
The origin of "God bless you" is from an old superstition that when someone sneezed, their soul momentarily left their body through the nostrils. This enabled the devil to creep in and prevent the return of the soul, but by saying "God bless you" the devil was stopped cold from entering the body.
The American Society for the Study of Headaches says that four out of five migraine sufferers are women.
It takes about four pounds of potatoes to make a pound of potato chips.
How fast is a jiffy? Faster than you can say it. A "jiffy" is equal to one-one hundred thousand billion billionth of a second according to lexicographers.
A college mathematician has calculated we spend five years of our lives waiting for things: waiting in lines, on telephones, in traffic and so on.
In Kansas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and South Carolina, a woman can legally get married at the age of 12.