Fast facts


Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Things you always never wanted to know

  • Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life!

  • When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

  • If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.

  • The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

  • Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

  • The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the "Redlegs" during the anti-communist movement.

  • Michael Jordan made more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

  • "Pulp Fiction" cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actors' salaries.

  • Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly 14 feathers.

  • The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party.

  • A full 7 percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

  • The 111th element is known as "unnilenilenium."