21 September 2018

Health care accounts for 18% of the US economy.

60,000 Protestant nuns, mostly European, belong to religious orders.

Art Deco styling dominated the automobile industry in the 1930s.

four cups of coffee—400 mgs of caffeine—is the daily max, according to the Mayo Clinic.

The traditional milking stool had only three legs because the cow had the udder.

Forty years ago, Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, was born in England.

Amazon employs more than 117,000 employees world-wide.

Preceded by Art Nouveau and followed by Art Deco, Arts & Crafts architecture flourished between 1910 to 1925.

Icelandic parents get seven months of parental leave; 90% of fathers take ‘Daddy Leave’. 

People who can see two years into the future have 2020 vision. 

Kids have played the card game, Old Maid, since Victorian times. 

Good-bye is a contraction of the phrase ‘God be by ye’.

Delivering packages since 1967, Purolator is 91% owned by Canada Post. 

The Jolly Jumper has turned 70. Invented in Ontario, it bounced onto the market in in 1948.

Housepainters who get cold can always put on another coat. 

140 ounces make an Imperial gallon; two of them is a peck. Four pecks equal one bushel. 

Folks who hail from Cape Town are called Capetonians. 

Not a darn good yarn, knitting was a male-only activity in Scotland for 200 years. 

Boston is the only state capital among the 48 contiguous US that is located on an ocean. 

Fish are poor square dancers. 

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