Steam Powered Heat

Automobile enthusiasts were aghast.

The world's speed record was held, not by one of their pet gasoline-powered cars, but by an automobile with a steam engine in its nose.

And the honor of being first to travel faster than two miles a minute had gone to this traitorous device.

It happened in January, 1906, when the Frenchman Marriott took his steam-powered Stanley to Daytona Beach, Florida. On the sands outside Ormond, Marriott sped over a measured mile at a rate of 121.52 miles per hour!

Not until 1908 did the gasoline engine return unto its own.

Then a huge Fiat named Mephistopheles zoomed to a new record, searing the cinders at the rate of 121.64 m.p.h.

The greatest single rainfall fell in the Philippines. In 1911, from July 14 to July 17, the floodgates of heaven opened wide over Baguio, and down gushed a record 88 inches of rain—or more than seven feet of water!

Anyone can swim or float more eaily in salt water than in fresh water because salt water is heavier, and thus has greater buoyancy. There is so much salt in the Great Salt Lake of Utah, that one cannot sink or completely submerge oneself in it.

Nevertheless, an inexperienced swimmer can drown if he panics and loses his balance. Although his body will float on the surface, the brine will suffocate him.

The smallest breed of dog extant is the Chihuahua.

At maturity, this Mexican wonder generally weighs somewhere between two and four pounds, but some Chihuahuas tip the scales at no more than a pound.

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