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Odd Facts From A Blemished Clutter Of Data
A mixture of rapid-fire notes covers oil demand, wartime costs, ship disappearances, heartbeats, and death-rate records. It mentions 1947 oil use up 20 percent from 1941 and 7 percent from 1946 due to 3,000,000 more vehicles, a WWII cost rate of 2,460 dollars per second, the Humber sailing ship vanishing in 1885 with 56 aboard, average heartbeats exceeding 100,000 per day, and low US death-rate records in 1946 and 1947. It also touches on pigments, Arctic Jan Mayen, historical whaling, Canadian buffalo extinction, and a 1885 American bolt making industry led by Jeremiah And Speer in Pawtucket.
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