DID YOU KNOW THAT—

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIII, Issue 3250, 13 February 1933, Page 2

DID YOU KNOW THAT—

It is estimated that it would take an airship travelling 105 miles per hour 105 years to reach the sun? More than 10,000 pieces of wood, metal, felt, cloth, etc., etc., are used in the making of a piano? Most people are heavier In the summer than they are in the winter? Bamboo shoots are considered edible in China, and it is said that when they are of a good variety they form a vegetable dish that has no rival? That the only two countries in which the mile is of equal length are Britain and America? Damage by hailstorms to crops throughout the world average forty million pounds a year? When Europeans were writing on the skins of animals, and leaves of plants, ancestors of modern Japanese were recording their thoughts on paper, made from wood and vegetable fibre?

Paper-making was commenced in Japan about 610 A.D. Clocks of various sorts, with wheels and weights were in use nine hundred years ago? Pendulum clocks were first made in 1650? Tobacco seeds are so minute that a thimbleful will furnish enough plants for on acre of ground.