|
Illustration by Holly Randall
|
|
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Print this
Things you always never wanted to know
Celery has negative calories - it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has to begin with.
The average brain constitutes 2 percent of a person's total body weight, yet it requires 25 percent of all oxygen used by the body, as opposed to the 12 percent used by the kidneys and the 7 percent by the heart.
Babe Ruth, who held the world lifetime record for home runs until the 1970s, also held the world record for strikeouts.
The Amazon River discharges 4.2 million cubic feet of water per second into the Atlantic Ocean.
A newborn baby's head accounts for about 1/4 of its entire weight.
Approximately 100 billion pennies have been placed into circulation in the United States since the beginning of this century.
Sports fans in Brazil sometimes became so impassioned that it was necessary to build a wide moat around the playing field of Rio's 180,000-seat Maracana Stadium. The moat keeps the crowd from running onto the field, molesting the players and attacking the referees.
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
The first letter of every continent's name is the same as the last.
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.
It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown. So turn that frown upside down!
Write a Letter to the Editor
|
|
|
