Fast Facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 26, 2005
Things you've always never wanted to know
The popular Stephen Taylor of the United Kingdom has a tongue measuring 3.7 inches from the tip to the center of his closed top lip.
The greatest authenticated age recorded for a tortoise is at least 188 years, achieved by a Madagascar radiated tortoise that was presented to the Tonga royal family by Captain Cook in either 1773 or 1777. The animal was called Tui Malila and remained in their care until its death in 1965.
On Feb. 28, 1974, a hamster belonging to the Miller family gave birth to a litter of 26. The average is eight babies per litter.
An ancient bristlecone pine tree called Methuselah is 4,733 years old. It was found by Dr. Edmund Schulman in the White Mountains, Calif., and dated in 1957.
Germany recycles between 70 percent and 80 percent of its consumption of paper and cardboard per year.
Walter Cavanaugh has accumulated 1,397 individual valid credit cards. The cost of acquisition to "Mr. Plastic Fantastic" was nothing, but they are worth more than $1.65 million in credit. They are kept in a 250-foot-long wallet, the world's longest.
Del Lawson registered a score of 139 in a single game of backward bowling at Cypress Lanes, Winter Haven, Fla., April 21, 2002. He bowled a series of three games with a total score of 376.
The fastest time to solve a Rubik's cube in an official championship while blindfolded is three minutes, 56 seconds by Dror Vomberg at the 2003 World Championships in Toronto.