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Mailbag: “A Tribute to Larry Scott” Edition

A Pac 12 Championship collection of useless facts.

  • The closest relative to the elephant is the manatee; scientists believe the elephant crawled back into the sea to become the manatee
  • Kiwi birds are blind and hunt by smell
  • The national religion of Scotland is Presbyterianism
  • Johnny Carson was born in Norfolk, Nebraska
  • Elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portions of their feet are made up entirely of fat, with no bone
  • “Toki doki kuruma de kayotte imasu” means “sometimes I commute by car” in Japanese
  • A H I M O T U V W X Y are the symmetric capital letters in the Roman alphabet, and i l o t u v w x are the symmetric lower case letters (although a case can be made against the lower case t)
  • Common thought is that it takes at least seven shuffles to properly “mix” a deck of cards
  • The Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish) can lay up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time
  • 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5
  • According to the state constitution, every male over 18 is considered part of the Arizona Militia
  • Switching letters at the beginning of words - for example, saying the “Scag of Flotland” instead of “Flag of Scotland” - is called ‘spoonerism’

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What has to happen for the offense to become as dominant as the defense is?