24 July 2018

Californians are less likely to barbecue on Tuesday than any other day of the week.

Today in 1963, Nova Scotia's Ambassador of Sail, Bluenose II, was launched in Lunenburg.

A group of ferrets is called a business.

In 1547, bagpipes were introduced onto the battlefield as a weapon of war.

Two decades before national health care, the old lady who swallowed the fly  did so in 1947.

In 1853, Mr. Christie began making g-o-o-d cookies in Toronto.

The short-link radio technology Bluetooth was initiated in 1989 in Sweden.

Americophbics struggle with the irrational fear of all things American.

Mexico’s Avocado Belt provides 45% of the world’s alligator pears. 

Lock, stock and barrel, it was 1794 when the old woman who lives in the shoe moved in with her tribe of tots.

In 17th Century New England, the term Blue Law was coined—blue meaning strict or pure.

The burn point of avocado oil is 271°C.

900,000 folks in Fiji tune into Radio Australia at 106.6 on their FM dials.

The core belief for the seven million practitioners of the Bahá’i Faith is the Three Unities.

Mary Sawyer attended the Redstone School in Sterling, Massachusetts in 1830, as did her little lamb.

There are a trio of genres in bluegrass music.

A bagpiper and an onion's difference is that no one cries when chopping up a bagpiper.

Oro y Plata is the official motto of the State of Montana.

Spread since 1952, Canadians, Americans, Mexicans and Venezuelans love Cheez Whiz.

Some daycares in the State of Victoria put Baa Baa Black Sheep out to pasture for being racist. 

Today’s Quote: Moral courage is a concept that isn’t talked about but is always noticed by its absence. ~Sally Armstrong, OC