Fast facts
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday, February 14, 2005
Things you always never wanted to know
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
The real name of Astro (the dog from "The Jetsons") is Tralfaz - his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp).
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
The Earth-moon size ratio is the largest in the solar system, excepting Pluto-Charon.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light.
New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut-off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state.
Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs.