Sunday, September 30, 2007

oil, immigration, and a disgusted lion

Today I learned that:
  1. The smoke point of unrefined high-oleic sunflower oil is 320 oF.
  2. Identifying the roughly 0.1% of illegal immigrants who don't survive their border-crossing attempt has started costing Southern Arizona tax payers about $400k a year, which sounds like a bundle, but if you think about it, it comes to less than $2.50 per person since the Tucson metropolitan area has a million residents all by itself.
  3. When the MGM lion went on a cross-country flight in 1927 in a small airplane that failed to clear the Mogollon Rim, thus crash landing in central Arizona, the lion looked pretty disgusted.

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