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Professor Bergman, a noted German scientist, and Dr. Hahn have been detected in the devil's work of inoculating hospital patients with cancer, without the knowledge or consent of the victims.
They justify themselves by the double assertion that persons so treated were in every case past recovery, and that it is necessary to have human beings upon which to make such experiments, as the lower animals are unsuitable.
Perfectly satisfactory to the scientists, no doubt, but hardly so to the unfortunates experimented on.
Lightning is more frequent in Illinois and Florida than in any other states.
The average adult will walk almost 75,000 miles over their lifetime, the equivalent of travelling around the world 3 times. The average person will stroll 6,839 steps a day.
The United States has more cats than any other country with 76.5 million, not counting strays which total over 41 million.
While loading a peddler's wagon in front of Rocco Bros. commission house, 511 South Eleventh street, Wednesday afternoon, five employees were greatly startled to see a large tarantula dart from a bunch of bananas and make toward them.
One of the men who had picked up the bunch, quickly let it drop. Several of the men picked up sticks to try and disable the tarantula. By moving rapidly to and fro the monster escaped for a time, but it was finally pinned to the sidewalk and captured.
With its legs stretched to their limit the tarantula was almost 10 inches long. The Rocco brothers say they have seen tarantulas in the past but this one is by far the largest they have seen. They now have it in a jar preserved in alcohol.
The first horror movie ever made was "The House of The Devil" in 1896 by Georges Melies.
The Myles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury, Mass., is the oldest maintained cemetery in the United States, est. 1638.
Hyperion, a coast redwood in California, is the world's tallest tree at 380.3 feet. It is estimated to be 700-800 years old. Woodpecker activity at the top may have prevented the tree from growing taller.
Scientists again impress upon us that the "ganglia" scattered through the body are little brains. They are composed of the same gray matter as in the brain, and do a vast amount of thinking on their own account.
Hence it seems that the ancients were not far from wrong when they located the affections and passions in the different organs in the body.
The Clacton spear is the tip of a wooden spear discovered in Clacton-on-Sea in 1911. It is 400,000 years old and the oldest known worked wooden implement.
The Australian box jellyfish is the most venomous marine animal in the world. It has enough venom to kill 60 adults.
The oldest elephant in the world was an Asian elephant named Changalloor Dakshayani who reached 89 years of age.
A colored man died recently in Brazil at the age of 150. He could remember events occurring in 1730, two years before the birth of George Washington.
In New Orleans there is a man of whom the papers say: "He commenced his career as a pirate 102 years ago, and now at the age of 118 he is a dock rat and a river thief."
Somebody has stolen the only hearse in Farmington, Conn., and the authorities offer a reward of $25 for its return with the thief in it.
It is not correct to say that "cemetery" means the "city of the dead." The word is from the Greek "koimeterion," meaning sleeping place, not the place of the dead.
There is nothing in the thinking that it was originally intended to convey the idea that the departed were really dead any more than there is in the old Hebrew term for cemetery- "bethaim"- house of the living.
Pseudoliparis swirei
Found in the ocean at a depth of 26,000 feet.
London, June 10--- A dispatch from Rome, published today, says that Paul Heseltine Stanley, a young American, became suddenly demented returning from a hunting trip last night, presumably as the result of being bitten by one of his dogs.
Mr. Stanley rode into the court yard of the Altieri Palace, surrounded by his dogs, and persistently attempted to ride his horse upstairs. He was eventually overpowered.
The keeper in an eating house in Berlin socked one of his waiters in the ear. The fellow at once rushed in among the guests in the dining room and exclaimed; "Gentlemen, I hope you enjoy your horse flesh!"
"Horse flesh?" inquired the guests as they laid down their knives and forks. "Yes, horse flesh. Come with me into the cellar and I will prove it." In five minutes the dining room was empty and has remained so up to the present, the caterer having no means of redress.
Elma, La., July 18--- Lightning struck Mrs. John Drewer and her two daughters this afternoon in their farm home near here. The mother and one daughter were killed. The other daughter is very low.
A zookeeper in New Zealand says that they had a giraffe in the 1960s named John whose bedding was made of oats and hay. Sparrows were constantly feeding on it and the giraffe began stomping on the little birds and eating them.
It is estimated that 170-190 people choke to death every year on popcorn, making it one of the top 5 dangerous snacks.
The largest litter of puppies is 24, by a Neopolitan mastiff named Tia in 2004.
The two highest-flying bird species on record are the endangered Ruppell's griffon vulture, which has been spotted flying at 37,000 feet(the same as a coastal commercial airplane), and the bar-headed goose, which has been seen flying over the Himalayas at 28,000 feet.
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