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Show Strange Facts 1 Superfine Lines I ' Wind tjie Musician J I Scatlcss Temples I CThe finest ruled lines in the I world are Nobert's lines, made by diamond points on the glass plates used to test the power of microscopes. micro-scopes. Some of the plates have more than 225,000 of these hairlines within the space of one inch. ftFingal's cave on StafTa, one of the Hebrides islands off Scotland, is believed to be the only cavern in the world in which one may hear natural musical sounds. It was this "music," produced by the wind playing around the prif111-shaped prif111-shaped pillars, that inspired Mendelssohn Men-delssohn to write his famous overture, over-ture, Fingal's Cave. S5 C More than half of the people in the world worship in temples that have no seats and that prohibit the wearing of shoes within their doors. Collier's. |