29 June 2018

Today in 1534, Jacques Cartier was the first European explorer to set foot on PEI.

Buttermilk is an organic antacid. 

11,708 New Zealanders were attacked by dogs in 2017. 

250 million people in 200 countries play football, a.k.a soccer.

When I said to a friend, “Those children are spoiled,” she replied, “All kids smell like that.”

Oil and iron ore make up 84.3% of Newfoundland and Labrador’s exports. 

France declared Tahiti as a colony on this date in 1880.

Violets are blue—all 600 species.  

Many of the 59,346 personnel in the Royal Dutch Military are union members.

A cannibal will sit down in a restaurant and order the waiter. 

If they do, they will die, so most sharks never sleep. 

Nauru was visited by 200 tourists in 2011. 

An oak tree produces an average of 2,000 acorns each season. 

Where it all began, Charlottetown numbers 36,094 souls.

The Immaculate Conception may have been a case of spontaneous combustion. 

The Tahitian national sport is Va’a, a.k.a. outrigger canoeing. 

By 1665, plantation owners had paid the British government a ha'penny each for the 12,000 Irish who performed slave labour in Barbados.

Parsley is cultivated as a herb, a spice and a vegetable. 

Blackberry and DataWind cellphones are manufactured in Canada.

The youngest inhabitants of Lapland are called babies. 

 Today's Quote:  Relationships never die a natural death. They are always murdered by ego or an inability to communicate. ~Unknown