DID YOU KNOW ?
i The hottest place _in the world Is Ladak, an isolated] province of Rashmir, among.the Himalayan glaciers. The day temperature often reaches 160 degrees. "* ' The Red Sea is for the most part blue. It derfves its name from the fact that portions of it are covered by minute animalculae, which dye the surface of the water red where they float. Almanacs date back td the year 100 A.D. . The first English Parliament in which the Commons were represented met on January, 20, 1265, and was summoned by Simon de Montfort. The weight of rock and earth removed :in the construction of the Panama Canal was estimated to be 360,000,000 tons. . ' ' England is 360 miles in length from North to South. A single spider has been known to spin a thread 34,800 yards long. About 18,000 spader- threads would equal the thickness of a human hair. The elephant is capable of carrying a burden of .between 3000 and 4000 pounds with its trunk, which has been calculated to consist ol upwards of 30,000 distinct muscles. There are 44,000,000 square miles of land in the Northern Hemisphere, against 16,000,000 4n the Southern.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 20
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193DID YOU KNOW ? Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 20
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