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Illustration by Jennifer Kearney
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Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 24, 2005
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Things you've always never wanted to know
Surveys show the majority of American men would rather shower than bathe, but it's a 50-50 proposition among women.
There are five times as many rats in Lima, Peru, as there are people.
The Bowie knife was not invented by James Bowie of Alamo fame. It was invented by his brother, Rezin Pleasant Bowie.
Jellyfish can evaporate.
Benjamin Franklin was the 17th child of a Boston candle maker.
If "beauty is only skin deep," it can't be more than 3/16 of an inch thick.
The grandfather of Charles Lindbergh changed the family's last name. If he hadn't, our high-flying hero would've been known as Charles Manson.
Llamas have extremely bad breath.
In the 1700s, a trapper could sell the deerskin of a buck for a dollar - hence, the term "buck."
A cucumber is 96 percent water.
A dime has 118 ridges around it.
Hugh Hefner was going to call his magazine Stag Party but a friend convinced him to name it Playboy.
It takes four hours to hard boil the 30-pound egg of an ostrich.
Liberace once used the stage name Walter Busterkeys.
The Campbell's Soup red and white label is derived from the colors of the Cornell University football team.
A bee uses 22 muscles to sting.
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