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Show Strange Facts I More Japs Here I ' . I Choic of Nationality I ill Ways to 'Home' C Contrary to the impression created cre-ated by our numerous Chinatowns, Chinese laundries and chop suey restaurants, America has only half as many Chinese as Japanese residents. resi-dents. Incidentally, 20 per cent of the Chinese and 40 per cent of the Japanese are women. C When a baby is born of a Turkish Turk-ish mother and a French father, while aboard a British ship in American territorial waters, his parents may claim for him any one of the four nationalities. KSs C The average - sized Atlantic coast oyster strains its food from about 18 gallons of water a day; a species of Tfexican squash stores enough moisture at one time to keep itself alive for 15 years. C. Homing pigeons in the service of the United States army signal corps have not only been trained to fly as far as 60 miles in darkness, dark-ness, but also to locate their, "home," or loft, when it is mounted mount-ed on a truck and moved many miles every 24 hours. Collier's. |