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Illustration Jennifer Kearney
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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
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There are 1,783 diamonds on the Britain's Imperial State Crown. This includes the 309-carat Star of Africa.
The streets of Victor, Colo., once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
Johnny Carson delivered 4,531 opening monologues during his 30 years as host of "The Tonight Show."
The four stars on the Chicago flag represent Fort Dearborn, the Chicago fire, the World's Columbian Exposition and the Century of Progress Exposition.
Sharpshooter Annie Oakley's (1860-1926) first name was actually Phoebe. Anne was her middle name.
According to Boston University, more than 16,580 bananas are eaten each week in its dining rooms.
Lightning strikes the Earth 1,800 times at any moment.
An item must contain 92.5 percent silver to be considered sterling silver.
Ancient Greeks and Romans believed asparagus had medicinal qualities for helping to prevent bee stings and relieving toothaches.
Texas has 254 counties. Alaska, which is more than twice as large, has none.
Pecans vary in size, from 30 to 90 nuts per pound. No nuts are produced until the trees are at least 5 years old.
A polar air mass moving south from Canada may pick up more than nine times as much water from the Mississippi basin as flows out from the mouth of the river.
When England was a province of Rome, the city of Cheshire was noted for its fine cheese. The Romans built a wall around the town to protect it. Cheshire cheese was made in a mold shaped like a cat, later made famous as the smiling feline in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland."
Elephants are covered with hair. Although it is not apparent from a distance, at close range, one can discern a thin coat of light hairs covering practically every part of an elephant's body.
In ancient China, abduction, armed robbery, treason and adultery were punished by castration.
Jason Robards, nominated for more Tony Awards than any other actor, made his New York City acting debut in 1947 as the rear end of a cow in a production of "Jack and the Beanstalk."
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