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Show Strange Facts 1 Regional Moods I Ears to Hear With I Who Is Perfect? Motion-picture producers, wishing wish-ing to adapt movies to different regional tastes, have been known to make pictures with two types of endings a tragic one for the East and West coasts and a happy one for the Middle West. Among the remarkable physical features that have been produced in animals through selective . breeding are the enormous ears of the "lop-eared" rabbits. Some on record are six inches wide by twenty-eight inches long. In at least 90 per cent of the American people, the left eye is nearer to the nose than the right eye. An analysis of the 400 most important im-portant inventions and discoveries made throughout the world in the past 400 years shows that 95 per cent of them originated in four countries: United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. Probably no man who ever lived has shot firearms as many times as a rifle tester in the Winchester Win-chester plant in New Haven, Conn. During his 52 years on this job, he has tried out and approved about 2,500,000 rifles with approximately approx-imately 17,000,000 shots. The tropical American vine called the ceriman, Monstera de-liciosa, de-liciosa, bears a peculiar fruit that resembles a pine cone and is about a foot in length. This fruit deteriorates inch by inch as it ripens, and must be eaten as it matures, a period that extends over several days. Collier's. |