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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
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  • A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.

  • When asked to name a color, three out of five people will say "red."

  • Talk is cheap compared to what it once was. In 1915, a telephone call from New York to San Francisco cost $20.70 for the first three minutes.

  • At 90 degrees below zero, your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.

  • "Pif, paf, pof" is the Dutch answer to the "Snap, crackle, pop" of Rice Krispies.

  • Most people take an average of seven minutes to fall asleep.

  • In ancient Rome, it was commonplace for a woman's bath to have a tub filled with donkey milk and spiced with perfumed swan's fat.

  • "Wanted: young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 a week." - if you fit this mid-1800s help wanted ad, you'd have been a perfect candidate for the Pony Express.

  • Bees flap their wings 300 times a second.

  • The word "taxi" is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.

  • Smokey the Bear's original name was Hot Foot Teddy.

  • The actual playing time in a big league baseball game, which lasts 2 1/2 hours, has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds.

  • The average person will use the bathroom six times during the average workday.

  • German-sounding items were a no-no in the United States during World War I. Americans took to calling sauerkraut "liberty cabbage."

  • Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat.

  • The only mammal that can fly is the bat.


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