Show S Strange ran e Facts Fac f a ts gs Odd Court Rulings Freaks for Speed Speedo o Minnows inn 0 W Whales haZes o During recent years courts of law Jaw in various states have held that railroad cars are buildings asses are cattle bicycles are animalS animals ani ani- mals maLi dentists are mechanics death by lynching is an accident and baseball is labor not a game or sport Even the Supreme court of the United States ruled in 1931 that the airplane is not a self pro vehicle Many 1 characters in animated movie cartoons are drawn with only three fingers and a thumb on each hand because the omission is rarely observed and saves considerable considerable considerable con con- time and labor The chief feature of a recent sports festival in Germany was a chariot race in which motorcycles took the place of horses Each quartet of cycles was held upright and apart from one another by crossbars and steered from the chariot by reins attached to their handle bars The seeds of some flowers such as certain species of petunias and begonias sell for 10 or more times their weight in gold There are approximately submarines in commission in the navies of the world today ranging in size from the giant French with a surface displacement displacement displacement displace displace- ment of 2880 tons down to the little little little lit lit- tle Finnish Saukko of only 99 tons Colliers tons Colliers |