19 June 2018

There are 185 days until Christmas.

Baseball caps were initially marketed as Brooklyn hats. 

Montréalers can hail any of the city’s 4,445 taxis. 

Today in 1961, the British Colony of Kuwait gained independence.
To make money by driving people away, become a cab driver.

Cullet is the industry’s term for recycled glass. 

Mack Truck delivered its first motorized vehicle—a sightseeing bus—in 1900.
It stands alone. A 26-tonne ‘Chubby Cheddar’ was made in 1955, in Granby, Québec.
Experienced glassblowers are bestowed the title of Gaffer.
Strict vegans refuse to be photographed for fear they might have to say 'Cheese'. 

Ontario’s Ministry of Transport simplified traffic with white lines painted on roads in 1930. By 1933 lines had spread continent-wide. 

The canon is a simple combustion engine. 

Tunisia ranks Number Two in the export of human hair.
People don't start wars--governments do.

The phrase ‘old hat’ first entered the lexicon in 1911. 

Ali Baba laboured as an impoverished woodcutter before he learned to say ‘Open Sesame’. 

More than 130 lakers load and deliver cargo to the Great Lakes’ 63 commercial ports. 

The plastic milk crate was invented in Australia.

The cow is of the bovine ilk, one end is 'moo' and the other is milk. ~Ogden Nash

Today's Quote: You have to be the best with what you have. ~Rick Hansen