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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, August 26, 2004
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Things you always never wanted to know
Feet cold? Put on a hat - 80 percent of all body heat escapes through the head.
The human body consists of 60 trillion cells, and each cell has about 10,000 times as many molecules as the Milky Way has stars.
The only U.S. president that held a Ph.D. was Woodrow Wilson.
A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
In his early days, Picasso kept warm by burning some of his drawings.
Mark Twain secured a patent in 1873 for a self-pasting scrapbook - a series of blank pages coated with gum.
Samuel Beckett, the playwright, was stabbed by a pimp with no specific motive and was found lying in a Paris street by the pianist Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil. She visited him in the hospital, lived with him, and just 24 years later married him.
The worst college campus riot prior to this century erupted at medieval Oxford - the "town and gown" battle of 1354. Originating in a tavern quarrel, the violence lasted for three days, involved dozen of townsmen and students, and ended with several dead and many injured.
Because its eyeball is fixed, a whale must move its entire body to shift its line of sight.
There was no soap in the ancient Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used not only for cooking but also for washing the body.
The plant life of the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the planet.
Julius Caesar was compelled by increasing traffic congestion to ban all wheeled vehicles in Rome during the hours of daylight.
George Washington Carver, whose research on such common crops as the peanut led the South away from its perilous one-crop economy (cotton), was illiterate until the age of 20.
The level of the sea fell 400 feet during the first Ice Age. Much of the Earth's water had been absorbed by ice caps.
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