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Show Strange Facts I Adam's Day I ' Slow in Anger ' I Spotted Aristocrats The world's 250,000,000 Moslems observe Friday as their Sabbath because, according to Mohammed, this was the day Adam was created, cre-ated, the day he entered and was also expelled from Paradise, the day of his repentance, the day of his death and the day he will be resurrected. Chameleons are "slow-motion" fighters. When two enemies start a battle, many minutes, even hours, pass between each thrust and perry. Sometimes the only way that one can tell a fight is in progress is by the color of their skins, which have turned black with rage. Increasing age diminishes attendance at-tendance at the movies to an astonishing as-tonishing degree. Survey indicate indi-cate that the number who no longer long-er attend increases from 50 per cent at the age of forty to 75 per cent at sixty to 98 per cent at eighty. Although about nine thousand members of Britain's aristocracy and sporting world are admitted to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, England, at each meeting, thousands thou-sands are excluded because they are in bankruptcy, involved in a divorce, owe too much money to a bookmaker or have not been presented at a royal court. Collier's. |