First it was killer dolphins, then killer badgers, and now spy squirrels. I suppose it wouldn't be too long until there are kamikaze pigeons and ants that can kidnap people...
I read somewhere that the octothorpe was created by a man who named it for the eight lines sticking out (-octo) and his favorite footballer David Thorpe.
In "Flags of our Father", there was a story about the Nanking Massacre. I remember reading that the Japanese soldiers used to take pregnant women out into a field, make a bet on what gender their children were, and proceed to slice open her belly and decapitate both the mother and child.
I'm probably wrong though...
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Go to my original comment - this time read it...
...and San Diego is closer to the East of Africa
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Kansas is opposite the Indian Ocean. Not one piece of land in the United States is directly across the world from China.
So much for digging that hole...