Fast facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Things you always never wanted to know
Assuming that all the offspring survived, 90,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.
"Glamorize," "sanitize," "motorize," "vitalize," "finalize," "personalize," "tenderize," "customize" and "comfortize" are all words invented by advertising agencies in the 20th century.
Try swallowing this: Dentists in medieval Japan extracted teeth by pulling them out with their fingers.
In 1977, more abortions than tonsillectomies were performed in the United States.
Albania once issued a stamp to commemorate the world's greatest smoker. His name was Ahmed Zogu and he reputedly smoked an average of 240 cigarettes - 12 packs - a day.
The opposite sides of a six-sided die always add up to seven.
There are a number of Americans who are related to Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, married an American.
The Graham Cracker was named after Sylvester Graham (1794 - 1851). A New England minister, Graham not only invented the cracker but also published a journal in Boston that took a rabid stand against tea, coffee, feather beds and women's corsets.
Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he does not wear pants.
Kirk Douglas' real name was Issur Danielovitch. Dean Martin's was Dino Crocetti.
An earthquake in the Shensi Province of China in 1556 killed 830,000 people in less than three hours.
In 1868, approximately 100,000 meteorites fell on the Polish town of Pultusk in one night.
"Huffcup," "the mad dog," "Father Whoreson," "angel's food," "dragon's milk," "go-by-the-wall," "stride well" and "lift leg" were all common terms for beer in Elizabethan England.