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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, September 15, 2003
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Things you always never wanted to know
Experiments conducted at several college laboratories demonstrate that hard rock music played to colonies of termites cause the insects to enter a kind of frenzy and chew through wood at twice their normal rate.
Men change their minds two to three times more often than women. Most women, experiments found, take longer to make a decision than men do, but once they make a decision they are more likely to stick to it, for good or ill.
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant all died in the month of July.
According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.
There are more television sets in the United States than there are people in Japan.
After his death, Alexander the Great's remains were preserved in a huge crock of honey. Among the ancient Egyptians, it was common practice to bury the dead in this manner.
About half the money paid out by fire insurance companies in the United States is paid for fire loss due to arson.
When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.
Of all professionals in the United States, journalists are credited with having the largest vocabulary - approximately 20,000 words. The average American's vocabulary contains 10,000 words.
The world is not perfectly round. It is an oblate spheroid, flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator. "Oblate" means having an equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter. "
At racetracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30 percent of all horse races.
From a 52-card deck it is possible to deal 2,598,960 different five-card poker hands. Of these 1,088,240 will contain a pair. Other possibilities are 4 royal flushes, 36 straight flushes, 624 four-of-a-kind hands, 3,744 full houses, 5,108 flushes, 10,200 straights, 54,912 three-of-a-kind hands, and 123,552 two-pair hands.
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