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Show Strange Facts 1 Plowing the Sea 1 Real Bell Ringers! I Benign Deafness To eliminate the annual damage of $500,000 to submarine cables by fishing trawlers off the coast of Ireland, the lines are now buried in the ocean bed by means of a new sea plow that automatically makes a deep furrow, inserts and covers the cable, even at a depth of 2,400 feet. SSS The record for bell ringing is held by the men who rang, from memory, 21,000 changes of eight bells each in a little more than 12 hours in All Saints' church in Loughborough, England, on Easter Sunday, 1909. sss In several British munitions plants, only deaf men are employed em-ployed in the shot-blasting departments depart-ments because the roaring, clanging clang-ing noise would soon make physical phys-ical wrecks of those with normal hearing. Collier's. |