Fast facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Things you always never wanted to know
Correction Letter:
"With regard to your so-called 'Fast Facts,' Ted Hughes did not marry three times. He was married only twice (to Sylvia Plath and Carol Orchard). Of his two wives, only Plath committed suicide. However, his girlfriend Assia Wevill also committed suicide and killed their child. It is a pity that your 'facts' seem so unreliable."
- voice_of_eve@exclamatorydomainname.com
David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in "Star Wars." He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)
A full 7 percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
4The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The Swiss flag is square.
Michael Di Lorenzo, who plays Eddie Torres on "New York Undercover," is one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.
Chrysler built B-29s that bombed Japan; Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on "M*A*S*H") was the only member of the cast who actually served as a soldier in the Korean War. That's right, it wasn't set in Vietnam.