18 September 2018


A week-old baguette makes a formidable impromptu weapon; it can knock an enemy out cold. 
Make room, NBC. Today in 1927, the Columbia Broadcasting System took to the airwaves.
Danish Blue Cheese is aged for eight to twelve months.
A 1954 Gallup Poll found a Canadian family of four lived well on $50 weekly—$10 less than in 1951.
Many people think they want careers when all they really want are paycheques. 


The Faroe Islands became independent of Denmark today in 1946.
The Walmart Roll Back price is $999 for a casket. 
The primary colours for TV screens and computer monitors are red, green and blue.
A potato is 80% water.  
Some people drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. 


Strawberries grow in all ten Provinces of Canada and each of the 50 United States. 
Today in 1885 Montréalers rioted in protest of compulsory smallpox vaccinations.
Batology is the taxonomic study of the more than 1,000 known species of  blackberries.
Liechtenstein was admitted to the United Nations today in 1990.
The difference between in-laws and outlaws is that outlaws are wanted.


Feldspars make up more than half of the Earth’s crust.       
Peaches were originally called ‘Persian apples’. 
More than 70,000 died in the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. 
Today in 1992, a bomb in Yellowknife’s Giant gold mine killed nine, one our worst mass murders. 
Corvette is the fastest one can travel, without having to eat airline food.  
Food for Thought: In order to write about life first you must live it. ~Ernest Hemingway










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