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Show UntU spectacles were Introduced In the year 1300, millions of nearsighted near-sighted people had lived out their . Uvea unable to see mountains, clouds or atari. The Inventor of spectacles is not known. Bifocal spectacles were invented by Ben Franklin. After a century of trial and error, scientists have found the secret of making diamonds: Subject Sub-ject carbon to heat of 6,000 decrees de-crees Fahrenheit In press with a punch of 1,300.000 pounds a square inch. Earth exerts roughly rough-ly the samt pressure 240 miles below the surface, Largest single user of coal for generation of electric power Is . . the Tennessee Valley Authority network of steam generating plants. TVA used nearly 15.25 million tons of coal in 1033. The University of Michigan is the oldest state university in the country and wai also the first state university to admit coeds. 19S7 will mark the 76th anniversary anni-versary of the first pure nickel coin. It was a 20-centlme piece issued by Swtizerland in 1881. Cottage cheese is highly perishable perish-able and should be kept covered, in the coldest part of the refrigerator. refrigera-tor. Class containers are best. Africa'! most deadly and vindictive vin-dictive animals are cape buffaloes. , Wounded, they have been known to ambush hunters and trample them with their ax-sharp hoofs. I . Harvard University libraries contain nearly 6.000,000 volumes, the largest stock of any university universi-ty in the United States and per- haps the world. Harvard also has more than 10,000 students, some j 3,000 teachers and fellows (among I them six Nobel Prize winners) a $350,000,000 endowment and 170 buildings. The nation's three largest steel companies mined more than 40.5 million tons of bituminous coal in 1955, more than half of which came from the mines of one company, com-pany, U. S. Steel Corp. Volume for volume, aluminum weighs one third as much as steel. Michigan Is known as the "Magic "Mag-ic Capital of the World" because its leading Industry is the manufacture manu-facture of magician's equipment. Tribes along Africa's Lake Kyo-ga Kyo-ga just north of the Equator eat fat roasted locusts. They also press dried gnats into cakes. Termites Ter-mites are another favorite food. Indian artifacts thought to be 9,300 years old were recently uncovered un-covered near Paisley, Oregon, by two high school boys. They were located in caves under 4Mi feet oi dust and dirt. |