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THIS IS YOUR HISTORY LESSON FOR THIS YEAR

In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters
carried iron cannons. Those cannon fired round iron cannon balls. It was
necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon, but prevent them from
rolling about the deck. The best storage method devised was a
square-based pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four resting on
nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of thirty cannon balls
could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only
one problem - how to
prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.

The solution was a metal plate called a, "Monkey," with sixteen round
indentations. If this plate
was made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to
the rusting problem was
to make,
"Brass Monkeys." Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more
and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature
dropped too far, the
brass indentations would shrink so much
that the cannon balls would come right off the monkey.

Thus, it was quite literally, "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass
monkey!"