Fast facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, January 28, 2005
Things you always never wanted to know
The Saturn V moon rocket burned 15 tons of fuel per second.
"Racecar" is a palindrome, meaning it's spelled the same way when spelled out backward.
At McDonald's in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.
Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.
The human head contains 22 bones.
A typical athlete's heart churns out 25 to 30 liters (up to 8 gallons) of blood per minute.
The bones in your body are not white - they range in color from beige to light brown. The bones you see in museums are white because they have been boiled and cleaned.
If all of your DNA was stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Nessie the Loch Ness monster is protected by the 1912 "Protection of Animals Act" of Scotland. With good reason - Nessie is worth $40 million annually to Scottish tourism.
Small-time gamblers who place a bet in order to prolong the excitement of a game are called "dead fish" by game operators because the longer the playing time, the greater the chances of losing.
Australians are the heaviest gamblers in the world; an estimated 82 percent of Australians gamble. That is twice as much per capita as Europeans or Americans. Yet, Australia, with less than 1 percent of the world's population, has 20 percent of the world's poker machines.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The pleasant feeling when eating chocolate is caused by a chemical called anadamide, a neurotransmitter, which is also produced naturally in the brain.
There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people. New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.