Dccembc-r 17, 1959
THE I-IQUNTAIN TRAIL
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HERBERT HOOVER \ms the first President
bom west of the I'fi.ssissippi River,
TIGEE.are native only to Asia and are not
found in Africa >ri.tli lions and .leopards.
The wandering ALPA‘^R0S8 has the greatest
wingspread of the entire bird kingdom.
Their mngs often measure 11 feet from
tip to tip.
The PIG outranks the horse in intelligence.
The big PITHOM sometimes eat mammals weigh
ing 150 poimds.
The REINDEER has 6 stomachs,
ELOOD circulates from the heart through
about 12;,00 miles of blood vessels, the
distance from New York to Hong Kong by
way of the Panama Canal.
The apple, pear, quj.nce, berries, peach,
apricot, plum, and cheriy arc all members
of the ROSE family,
ATOl-IS are so small that f a drop of water
were magnified the size of the earth,
the atoms in the dxcp I'oal.d be smaller than
an orange. And.,.if a person wore the
size of an atom, all the people on the
earth would fit into n space smaller than
the point of a pin.
Of every 1000 students who enter high
school in the U. S., ijl? are graduated.
Of these, lij6 go to college, but only 72
are graduated.
The DIRT taken out of the Panama Canal
would have built a wall 10 feet high and
five feet wide around the earth.
The entire ATI'iOSPHJiRE of the earth weighs
nearly 6 million billion tons.
An ounce of PLATINUl-I can be hammered out
into a txhin.i-Tire that would reach from
New York Ci-fiy to New Orleans,
If MOlffi'IT EVEREST were sunk in the deep
est part of the ocean it would be more
than a mile below the surface of the
vrater. And,,.if the surface of the
earth was leveled off, the entire globe
would be covered by water ij miles
deep.
There are more than 1,200 known iuner-
ican Indian languages or dialects,
A modem heavy BOMBER holds enough
fuel to drive a car around the world
l6 times.
The oldest canal in existence, with
parts of it still in use, is the
GaiND CiJ'-IiLL of China, It was finished
by Kublai Khan about 1280 A, D,
The ijyL'iZON RIVER is more than 200 feet
deep and 1^0 miles mde at its mouth.
About 750 different kinds of fish live
in the water, jilso the river pushes
fresh water mor^ than 100 miles into
the Atlantic Ocoan,
The hottest SPRirG in the world is in
Icelando De^-p in the spring the water
is 50 degrees above that of the boil
ing point.
The Greenland ICE CiOP, up to '
feet thick covers an area of about
700,000 square miles. If it were to
^clt, the oceans of the earth would
rise 2h feet.
The BLACK SlLiLLOVJER, a, small fish
of the deep sea, can easily swallow
and digest a fish 2 or 3 times its
own size.
The EiiRTH is probably more than
2,000,000,000 years old. The diameter
at the equator is 7,926.56 miles, and
the ‘diameter through the North and
South polos is '7,d99»7h miles,
/ill facts from "Every Vj'eek"
obtained by Jessie Harbison