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Show WORTH KNOWING Palm trees have been known to live 250 years. The Laplander can cover 150 miles a day on his skates. The camel has been known to pull 200 pounds at ten miles an hour for 12 hours. During the war Brazil shipped to the allies more than thirty million dollars' dol-lars' worth of meat A sudden change of weather will often put the watch out of business by causing the mainspring to break by contraction. A Danish physician named Svlndt, who has made many artificial legs out of papier mache, Is now making artificial ar-tificial feet out of paper pulp. The first published description of the "divining rod" for tracing underground under-ground streams of water was contained con-tained In Agrieoln's "Be De Metalllca," dated 1500. t ' |