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unusual facts about Siphon


The Damme Canal

It was necessary to create a system of Siphons because of the differences in water level of the three canals.


Barometer

Raffaele Magiotti and Gasparo Berti were excited by these ideas, and decided to seek a better way to attempt to produce a vacuum than with a siphon.

Cyrtopleura costata

Gametes are passed out of the exhalent siphon and fertilisation takes place externally.

Janus the Nega-Man

Janus plotted to siphon the power of the Negative Zone, however he was apparently destroyed this time by an energy disruption.

Pseudofeces

The unwanted material is periodically ejected (usually through the inhalant siphon or aperture) by contractions of the adductor muscles, which "clap" the shells together, pushing most of the water out of the mantle cavity and forcibly ejecting both the feces and the pseudofeces.

Stellar engineering

In the season 3 (1989) episode "Take Me to Your Leader" of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady use a Solar Siphon to aim towards the Sun, and store the solar energy into compact batteries, freezing the Earth making it too cold for people to resist them.

Truman Gibson

Two years later, Mr. Gibson and four co-defendants – Frankie Carbo, once described by the New York district attorney's office as "the underworld czar of boxing", Louis Tom Dragna, Joe Sica, and Frank Palermo – were convicted in federal court of conspiracy and extortion in an effort to siphon off earnings from the welterweight champion Don Jordan.


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