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Show Strange Facts I Smell the Danger I I Clear Way for Shah ' ' I I Humble Hug Walls , In many large Western mines where alarm bells cannot be heard over the noise of the machinery, the workers are warned of a fixe by an odor produced by a few drops of butyl mercaptan put into' the air-circulating system. This danger signal has the odor of skunk. MTien the shah of Iran travels about his country by motorcar, all roads he uses are cleared a day in advance, all houses he passes are freshly whitewashed and all the, dogs in the villages where he stops for the night are killed as he is a very light sleeper. More than half of the world's, 2,000 adult midgets are married to" normal-sized husbands and wives. ' j- . The La Trappe monastery in ' Aiguebelle, France, following the:" custom of many other religious houses, allows only the head of the institution to walk in the middle' of the halls and passageways. AH others walk close to the walls, as ' a gesture of humility. Collier's. |