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Show Strange Facts t 'Black-Out' Lights 1 Street Car Diners Immortal Trees For "black-outs" during air raids, England has perfected highway high-way and traffic lights, headlights and police uniforms that can be seen only by those on the ground. K? Geneva, Switzerland, has streetcars street-cars whose entire space is given over to restaurants in which the passengers eat and drink as they travel through the city. 5SSS Many navies now use a torpedo that appears to be aimed at a point far ahead or far behind its target but, after going some distance, suddenly makes a right or left swing and strikes before its objective ob-jective can turn away. A study of marital tendencies reveals that a much larger number num-ber of widowed and divorced men marry spinsters than widowed and divorced women marry bachelors. tSSS The giant redwood trees in California Cali-fornia and Oregon have never been known to die a natural death. Collier's. |