01 September 2018

Today is the 244th day of the year.

Happiness is the key to success.

An undergrad from Québec pays $2,391 a semester to attend McGill University.

The Terry Fox Foundation has raised more than $750 million for cancer research.

The constable told me that my dogs were chasing people on bikes. My dogs don’t even have bikes.

Because they are so popular in Scandinavia, Europeans call rutabagas, ’Swedes’

Beginning in St. John’s and on the road for 143 days and 5,373 kilometres; Terry Fox’ Marathon of Hope ended tragically Thunder Bay today in 1980; cancer spread to his lungs.

Canada is the world’s largest cultivator of rutabagas. 

Claustrophobics become highly productive, once they learn to think outside the box.

Orbiting Saturn, the planet has 62 known moons, nine of which have not yet been named.

There are 17 root vegetables in Canada’s Food Guide.

Carcinophobes struggle with the irrational fear of getting cancer.

In 2005, The Royal Canadian Mint issued a Terry Fox loonie, honouring the 22-year old hero, killed by cancer.

I have as much authority as Pope Frances—just not as many people believe it.

The Monarch butterfly’s diet consists solely of milkweed.

A bear served in the Polish Army during WWII.

In 36 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe,  more than two million participate in annual Terry Fox Runs.

Radio Moscow took to the airwaves in 1929. Today it is Radio Sputnik. 

I dropped ice cubes under the Kelvinator;  now it's just water under the fridge.

Food for Thought: One should speak little with others and much with one's self.  ~Danish proverb