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Illustration by Mike Padilla
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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
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Heroin was the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
Marijuana is Spanish for "Mary Jane."
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
U.S. interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the West with odd numbers, and interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the South with even numbers.
Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs - fierce and agile herd animals that populated Asia, North Africa and Europe - and eotragus - an antelopelike, Asian forest creature.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
SOS doesn't stand for "save our ship" or "save our souls" - It was just chosen by a 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters "S" and "O" were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it: "S" is dot, dot, dot. "O" is dash, dash, dash.
The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.
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