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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, October 28, 2004
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Things you always never wanted to know

  • Hot water weighs more than cold.

  • Granite conducts sound ten times faster than air.

  • Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, was the first to be born a citizen of the United States. He was born in 1782, six years after the signing of the Constitution.

  • James Madison, at 5 feet 4 inches, was the shortest president of the United States.

  • A person who smokes one pack of cigarettes a day inhales a half-cup of tar every year.

  • Stage bows were originally devised as a way for actors to thank the audience. The audience would or would not acknowledge each of the actors in turn, depending on how much they enjoyed the performances.

  • Light takes six hours to travel from Pluto to Earth.

  • Only eight men were killed in the Battle of Lexington.

  • In the Declaration of Independence as first written by Thomas Jefferson, there was a clause abolishing slavery. Because of popular pressures, however, Jefferson deleted the clause.

  • During a severe windstorm or rainstorm, the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.

  • Clouds fly higher during the day than during the night.

  • In his lifetime, Samuel Morse (1791-1872), inventor of the telegraph, was better known as a painter than as a scientist.

  • The high roofs of some London taxicabs were originally designed to keep gentlemen from knocking off their top hats as they entered and left the vehicles.

  • In 1905 the Bosco Company in Akron, Ohio, marketed a "collapsible Rubber Automobile Driver." The figure, deflated and kept under the seat when not in use, was a kind of dummy intended to scare thieves away when the car was parked.


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