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Show Things You Knew All Along: (But Which I Diddf.n Know 'Til Now) Scientists claim singing Inspires robust health. Yodeling is supposed to invigorate the circulation, revitalize revital-ize the tissues, eliminate toxins and strengthen the throat and lungs. (Oh sure. That's why Sinatra is the cave man type.) Patrick Henry was one of the world's great orators, but he couldn't write a memorandum that made sense. Verdi's biggest competitor was Enrico Patrella, who aped his style. Patrella penned twenty operas (now forgotten) and died In poverty. Famed Verdi died a millionaire. (Copycats, beware.) Caligula, a Roman emperor, mada guests pay for their meals. Think double features are bad? A Buenos Aires movie house exhibits five different films daily. (A cure for Insomnia?) A Rajah In India has a billion dollar dol-lar a year income. (He's almost as prosperous as the owner of a hot dawg stand on the road to ruin.) Mozart was an enthusiastic billiard bil-liard player. Much of his music was composed while awaiting his turn. (I don't believe it, either.) A sneeze lasts about a tenth of a second. (Or just long enough to ruin the big scene.) The first railroad tunnel in the U. S. was built In 1833 near Johnstown, Johns-town, Pa. (And you always thought the only famous thing about Johnstown Johns-town was the flood.) About sixteen million thunderstorms thunder-storms occur each year throughout the world. (That's what the man said.) Poison ivy is most poisonous In the spring and early summer when the sap is most abundant. (So stay in the city and out of the bushes, you dope.) The building of railways in England Eng-land was at first forbidden by Parliament. Par-liament. Because it would interfere with fox-hunting. (You've prob'ly heard this definition of a fox: He gets what a wolf goes after.) You can't hide strong emotions from the tips of your fingers and toes. When you're excited they get cold. Gobbling too much sweet food makes the body susceptible to colds. (Your medico would charge money for this kind of information, you lucky you.) Oranges contain practically no starch. (Ain't that wonderful news, girls????) Typing for 45 minutes burns up 100 calories. (Which makes this a 200 calorie colyum.) In the 19th Century, Kalesnikoff, a Russian shoemaker, distinguished himself as a doctor and rapidly rose to the office of chief surgeon at the Kieff Hosp. He performed 600 major ma-jor operations before his deception was uncovered. (Try and top that. Dr. Kildare.) In Siam a man is allowed only one divorce, but he can sell his other oth-er wives. "New" and "old" potatoes have about the same nutritional value. (So don't be so fussy.) When Mount Pelee (a volcano on the West Indian island of Martinique) Marti-nique) erupted some time ago, it killed all of the 26,000 inhabitants ol the town of St. Pierre but one. That one was a prisoner in the town jail. (Make your own moral.) The universe Is one solid mass traveling at 180 miles per minute. (Correct, Prof. Einstein?) This is the origin of the word "cop." London's first police force wore blue uniforms with large copper cop-per buttons. These buttons gave the police the name copper, later shortened short-ened to cop. (Ho-hum!l!) Snapping turtles have been known to bite completely through an oar. "(Ain't that oarful?) A halibut always lies on its left side, and both its eyes are on the right. (Gruesome, ain't it??) Lack of common salt actually caused Napoleon's failure before Moscow. Because his soldiers didn't have sufficient salt in their diets, their wounds refused to heal and their systems were unable to repel disease. (Amazing what you can find in books.) W. Va. has a law which makes 11 illegal for an alien to own a dog. May is the only month in which a U. S. President has neither been born nor died. |