Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 42, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 September 1939 — Strange Facts [ARTICLE]

Strange Facts

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The only animals known to car ry their lunches on journeys are certain species of bats, notably the Pipistreilus pygmaeus. They curl their tails into pouches, fill them with insects ; nd feed while in flight. On the day before a Chinese funeral. the family of the deceased purchase and burn j a number of paper representations of horses, boxes of money, extra clothes and servants, which he or she will need in the next world. Incidentally, tire shops selling this merchandise are usually known as “hell-equipment stores.” | Polar hears are the champion long-distance swimmers among land mammals. It net uncommon to find them at ea as far as 40 miles from Intel ron an ice floe. Nitroglycerin acts v. th such rapidity that if a five mile pipe filled with it w'erei .'debmated at one end the entire eolun n w< uld explode—and produce 10.000 times its own volume of gas in about one second.—Collier's.