Fast facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday, December 2, 2004
Things you always never wanted to know
The address for a Web site titled "Canada Kicks Ass" is http://www.canadaka.net. Its mascot is a little guy with big black boots.
Hoof and mouth disease is a viral infection that afflicts animals with cloven hooves such as cattle, pigs and sheep. The disease is not necessarily fatal, but leaves its victims debilitated. Because of its highly infectious nature, farmers almost always kill infected animals and burn their carcasses. While not susceptible to the disease, humans can carry and transmit it without even realizing it.
Vultures prefer meat as fresh as possible and won't eat extremely rotted carcasses. They can smell carrion only 12 to 24 hours old.
Snapping turtles eat carrion and are used by some police forces to help locate dead bodies.
The largest turtle ever found weighed 2,016 pounds.
Dementia is currently the second-largest cause of disability burden, after depression. By 2016, dementia will be the largest source of disability burden.
San Antonio is the second-largest city in Texas.
China is the world's second largest power generation giant, the second-largest e-mail receiver, the second largest online population, the second-largest diamond processorand the second largest aviation market, and it is projected to be the second-largest economy by 2030.