Fast Facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 23, 2005
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.