Cold Enough To Freeze The Balls Off A Brass Monkey

[westbeilschmidt]

It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen

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[blue_eye]

Wow....that was fascinating....