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The Daily Wildcat

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    Fast Facts

    ? It’s illegal to plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.

    ? The partridge berry is a botanical Siamese twin. Each berry develops from two flowers.

    ? The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

    ? A primitive steam engine, invented by the Greek engineer Hero, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.

    ? Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.

    ? At last count, there were about 226,000 trees in New York’s Central Park.

    ? Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.

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