23 October 2018

There are nine days until Hallowe’en.

In Europe, 8 million automobiles are recycled on an annual basis. 

The first hypodermic needle was used on humans in 1844.

Enacted by Parliament in 1914; the War Measures Act gave broad arrest powers to policing agencies.

The world gets better every day—and then worse in the evening.  

Romania’s top three export trading partners are Germany, Italy and France.

Eyebrows are an important component of communication.

An African Bull Elephant’s heart beats 28 times a minute. 

The number of Canadians who chose assisted death rose 30% in the past six months. 

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. 

Made from fat boiled in acid, the world’s first record of soap was in the Babylonian Empire.

Depending upon the individual, humans have between 501 and 700 lymph nodes. 

Coconuts are seeds.

Switzerland has the best railway infrastructure.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. 

The world’s largest omelette required 110,000 eggs. 

In democracy, there are two types of electoral systems. 

Owls are farsighted. 

Kamikaze pilots wore helmets. 

Grow old as slowly as possible.

Food for Thought: Gerrymander was coined in 1812, drawn from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts combined with the word salamander, from the supposed similarity between a salamander and the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office; the creation was felt to favour his party: the map (with claws, wings, and fangs added), was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander.