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October 19, 1998
62.5Accuracy percentage at picking NFL game winners of Rasha, an elephant at the Fort Worth Zoo, who makes her choices for The Dallas Morning News by touching team logos with her trunk.
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October 19, 1998

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62.5
Accuracy percentage at picking NFL game winners of Rasha, an elephant at the Fort Worth Zoo, who makes her choices for The Dallas Morning News by touching team logos with her trunk.

38
NFL players, past and present, who attended Long Beach ( Calif.) Poly-the most of any high school.

2,200
Homing pigeons that mysteriously disappeared, 81% of those released, in two races in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

140
Workers who called in sick to a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., on the night of the Oct. 5 Packers-Vikings game, forcing the plant to shut down.

809
Weight, in pounds, of a prize pumpkin grown in Krakow, Wis., named Gilbert Brown, in honor of the Pack's 345-pound defensive lineman.

4,500
Minutes that the Florida State spirit drum was beaten nonstop in the two days preceding the Seminoles' win over Miami.

211
Years that London's 17,500-member Marlyebone Cricket Club was all-male before it voted recently to open its doors to women.

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