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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, August 27, 2004
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Things you always never wanted to know
A thousand tons of meteor dust fall to the Earth every day.
Men are six times more likely than women to be struck by lightning.
A crocodile weighing 120 pounds exerts a force of about 1,540 pounds between its jaws. A human being's jaws exert a force of only 40 to 80 pounds.
"Vestiphobia" refers to the fear of clothing. "Otophobia" refers to the fear of opening one's eyes.
Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at the assassinations of three presidents: his father's, President Garfield's and President McKinley's. After the last shooting, he refused to ever attend a state affair again.
The figure of King Kong seen in the original movie of the same name was actually a model 18 inches high, and his roar was that of a lion's played backwards.
Grace Kelly was the first motion-picture actress to appear on a postage stamp. In April, 1956, she was featured with her husband, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, on a stamp that commemorated their wedding.
Assuming that each fold neatly overlaps its opposite side, a dollar bill can be folded only six times - seven if put into a vise.
In 1060 a coin was minted in England shaped like a clover. The user could break off any of the four leaves and use them as separate pieces of currency.
The parachute was invented more than 100 years before the airplane. It was the creation of a Frenchman, Louis Lenormand, who designed it in 1783 to save people who had to jump from burning buildings.
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