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Illustration by Mike Padilla
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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
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Ash Wednesday is named for the practice of putting ashes on one's forehead as a sign of penitence.
More than 17 percent of all airplanes nationwide have been found to have fecal coliform bacteria in their drinking water. Bring your own water.
The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
Libya has the only flag that is all one color with no writing or decoration on it.
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultra-violet light.
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," by the Beatles.
Des Moines has the highest per capita gelatin consumption in the United States.
There are only three animals with blue tongues: the black bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
There are six words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate, duumvir and residuum.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.
All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.
The Madagascar hissing cockroach is one of the few insects that give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have a seven-vertebra neck.
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