13 September 2018



Macintosh is Canada’s favourite eating and cooking apple. 
Seagulls mate for life.
The fine for not wearing a seatbelt in the Republic of South Africa is ZAR 250.
Sugar is addictive and withdrawal is difficult. 
Since 1791, Mozart has been decomposing. 


07 February, 2009 was The Black Saturday Bushfires, Australia’s worst. 180 died, 414 injured, 45 000 hectares of land burnt, at a cost of AUD$4.4 billion.
The cities of Toronto and Moscow are located within the taiga biome. 
When ordering French dressing in Paris, ask for vinaigrette.
Scientists have dug up a dinosaur with a large vocabulary; they have named it Thesaurus. 


Unloved, unwanted, more than 100,000 rule Toronto, Earth’s Raccoon Capital.
A score of 132 will get one a membership in MENSA, the high IQ society. 
Little girls have been made of ‘sugar and spice and everything nice’ for two centuries, plus.
Bolivia produces more Brazil nuts than Brazil. 
The one-armed man crossed the road to get to the second hand shop. 


The scientists who discovered sucralose, a.k.a. Splenda, were searching for an insecticide. 
7 million die of exposure to dirty air every year, according to the WHO.
Since hitting the airwaves in 1995, Andorra Televisó broadcasts nationwide in Catalan. 
The sweetest compound is lugduname—registering 20,000 times the sweetness of sugar. 
My neighbour named his pooches Timex and Rolex because they are watch dogs.


Food for Thought: We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives. ~Mitt Romney

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