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Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 23, 2005
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Things you've always never wanted to know

  • Maine is the only state in the United States that has only one syllable.

  • The Nepalese national ensign is not a rectangular flag. It has two triangular pennants, one on top of the other.

  • Alan Alda was paid $150,000 per episode for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on the "M*A*S*H" television sitcom.

  • Abraham Lincoln did not set foot in Illinois, "The Land of Lincoln," until he was an adult.

  • You can preserve unrefrigerated ground camel meat with garlic.

  • The words "loosen" and "unloosen" mean the same thing. So do "inflammable" and "flammable."

  • A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.

  • A bear has 42 teeth.

  • Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other at the same time.

  • Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 mph.

  • A frog has to close its eyes in order to swallow.

  • In 1968, there were five million-dollar lottery winners around the United States who didn't claim their tickets.

  • An inch-thick rope of spider's silk can withstand up to 148,000 pounds of pressure.

  • A horse can look forward with one eye and backward with the other.

  • In most cases, it's cheaper to send a student to college than it is to keep a prisoner in jail.

  • J.C. Penney's middle name was Cash.

  • Walter Cronkite dropped out of the University of Texas in his junior year to work for the Houston Post.

  • Adolf Hitler's favorite movie was "King Kong."

  • Giraffes are susceptible to throat infections.


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