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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday, November 8, 2004
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Things you always never wanted to know

  • Roy Rogers is the only country recording artist to be elected twice to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

  • Bailey's Bar and Grill at 408 Broadway in Nashville, Tenn., has air purifiers that replace the air eight times every hour.

  • President Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey. Roosevelt only lived long enough to serve 53 days of his fourth term.

  • On this date 211 years ago, the Louvre Museum opened in Paris.

  • There are seven distinctive types of combs on chickens: rose, strawberry, single, cushion, buttercup, pea and V-shaped.

  • A human waterbed can cost $50. An ergonomic waterbed for cows is $175 on average and is said to enhance cattle health by reducing joint damage.

  • Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

  • Sissy Spacek, who soared to fame as the title character and unpopular high school student with deadly telekinetic powers in 1976's "Carrie," was selected as the homecoming queen at her high school in Texas.

  • During the 1940s, Revlon contributed directly to the war effort in the 1940s, by manufacturing first-aid kits and dye markers for the U.S. Navy. When the war ended, the cosmetic firm began to produce manicure and pedicure instruments, which were tremendously successful.

  • When Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, Harry Truman became the first U.S. President to take office in the midst of war.

  • Several family characters in "The Simpsons" are named after creator Matt Groening's own relatives. His father and son are both named Homer, another son is named Abraham, his mother is named Marge and his two sisters are named Lisa and Maggie. Bart's name, according to Groening, is an anagram of "brat."

  • It is impossible to commit suicide by holding your breath.


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