11 July 2018

95% of all corn squeezin’s—aka—bourbon, is distilled in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Stand under them if you like, but mistletoe and holly berries are toxic, if ingested.

Fat is one of three energies necessary to fuel the human body.

Today in 1796, The United States took possession of Fort Detroit from Britain. 

Cinderella never wanted a prince. What she asked for was a pretty dress and a night off.

In Days of Yore, doctors believed the heart ruled the body: cold-hearted, hard-hearted and half-hearted were once medical terms.

Kentucky is one of twelve jurisdictions in America’s Corn Belt.

There are 166 days until Christmas.

Today is Free Slurpee Day in North America’s 8,784—count ‘em— 7-11 stores.

Some knights in shining armour turn out to be knaves clad in tinfoil. 

As WWII wound down, ten million Germans fled Poland in advance of the Red Army. 

340 million hectares of the planet’s forest land went up in flames last  year. 

Girl Guides with St. John Ambulance First Aid skills can set any of six bone fractures.

Newfoundland and Labrador, like California and Alaska, has no poison ivy. 

The toothbrush was invented in Kentucky. Had it been invented elsewhere, it would have been called a ‘teethbrush’. 

Corgi is the Welsh word for ‘dwarf dog’.

After 196 years of ruling the roost, The Russian Empire fell in 1917.

10% of Canadians who suffer a heart attack at home will survive.

Classified as carnivores, giant pandas wolf down 14 kilos of bamboo every day.

In Imperial Russia, it was impossible to escape serfdom as the Tsar made resistance feudal.

Today's Quote: Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. ~Jesus