21 October 2018

Today marks the birth of the Báb for practitioners of the Bahá’ï faith.
A group of bakers is collectively known as a Tabernacle. 
It has been 43 years since advertising was banned on CBC Radio.
The apostrophe first appeared in France in 1529, to show a letter had been dropped from a word. 
The third degree is a diploma for successful criminals. 


Tonka Toys takes its name from ’Tanka’, the Dakota Sioux word for ‘great’ or ‘big’. 
There are three categories of verbs in the English language.
On this date in 1875, Icelandic immigrants founded Gimli, Manitoba. 
Velveta was marketed as a nutritious health food in the 1920s and ’30s. 
Patients must brace themselves for visits to the orthodontist. 


Andorra has not been to war in nearly 1,000 years.
Bread consists of two parts: the outside is called the crust, inside is the crumb.
The Royal Canadian Navy was established in Halifax, today in 1910. 
To speak to the deaf, Anglophones use American Sign Language and Francophones use La Langue des Signes Québecoise.
When one cannot remember the word for strawberry en français, look it up in a fraise book.


The 911 emergency phone system originated in Winnipeg. 
A milliner makes ladies’ hats; a man who makes men’s hats is called a hatter. 
This is the International Day of the Nacho.
Water is usually more dense than ice. 
Rocks are bad for your teeth.


Food for Thought: In these different worlds his (the disbeliever's) clothes are fire, even if they are of silk, and the place of his sojourn is fire, even if he is on the highest throne on the Earth, and his food is likewise fire. ~The Báb


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