14 November 2018

Any land mass rising more than 300 metres above the surrounding area is officially a mountain.  

The Moosehead Brewery in Saint John, NB turns out 1,642 bottles of suds every minute. 

Once planted, cantaloupes bear fruit in 90 days. 

Today in 1922, the BBC went on the air for the very first time.

When climbing a mountain, never look up--unless you have the number of a plastic surgeon handy. 

The element mercury melts at -38.83°C.

We have more doughnut shops per capita than any other country on Earth.

Finnish and Polish banking institutions  no longer offer chequing accounts. 

Spain officially abandoned its claims to the Western Sahara, today in 1975. 

Doughnuts: Eat more hole foods. 

Say ‘good-bye’; CP Rail shed the caboose today in 1989; CN followed suit two months later.

Canada’s smallest provincial capital is Iqaluit, population 7,250—and yes—it has three Tim Horton’s.

Mercury is the fastest moving planet in our solar system. 

Half the world’s polar bears call Nunavut home.

On vintage trains, engineers had great esteem. 

Object made of crystal are stronger than ones made of glass. 

Ford fielded the mid-priced Mercury from 1938 to 2011.

Today in 1835, Canada’s first insane asylum opened in Saint John, NB. . 

Doughnuts originated in The Netherlands.

Plan to settle internal conflicts without bloodshed. 

Food for Thought:  Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!  ~Oscar Wilde