09 August 2018


There are four types of Japanese tea ceremonies.
Invented 60 years ago, Pong was the world's first video game.
Today in 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the XI Olympiad in Berlin. 
A heat wave must consist of three consecutive days where the mercury rises to 32°C.
They used to time me with a stopwatch, now they use a calendar.



On this date in 1944, Smokey the Bear began his appointed task of preventing forest fires.
The Snowcastle of Kemi, Finland- is the world’s largest ice hotel-includes an eatery and a wedding chapel.
My housekeeper is only second best—she just walked off with the silver. 
Shopper’s Drug Mart, a.k.a. Pharmaprix, operates 1,307 stores in nine provinces and two territories.
One fruit contains the elemental combination of barium and double sodium, the BaNaNa.


Ford manufactures vehicles and components in 23  countries.
An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki today, in 1945.
238 years ago, Farmer Brown named his dog B-I-N-G-O.
A snow fort is constructed of piled and or compacted snow.
Cross an airplane with a magician and Voila! You have a flying sorcerer. 
Richard M. Nixon resigned as president of the United States 44 years ago today.
Neither St. John’s nor Vancouver have ever recorded an official heat wave.
Anywhere from 4% to 14% of people perceive the taste of coriander to be akin to bath soap.
Crooked George Washington committed Valley Forgery. 


Brits with an Italian heritage are called ‘Britalians’.
The optimal storage temperature for snow peas is 5°C.
404 kilometres square, Kejimkujic National Park opened officially today in 1969.
If the US Army were a city, it would be America’s tenth largest urban centre. 
The difference between Queen Elizabeth II and a duck is that one has her face on a bill—the other a bill on its face.



Food for Thought: Everything you can imagine is real. ~Pablo Picasso

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