21 November 2018


A grouping of jellyfish is called a smack. 
StatsCan reports 160,000 vehicles were involved in collisions, last year. 
Today in 164 BC, Judas Maccabeus restored the temple in Jerusalem; the event is commemorated as Hanukkah.
Joints in the skull do not move. 
An odd truth about accidents is that people never have one until they’re having them.


The planet Venus spins in reverse from Earth.
After 37 years in power, Robert Mugabe resigned as president of Zimbabwe, on this date in 2017.
The utricle is the world’s smallest fruit. 
More board games are sold in Germany than in any other country.
The correct spelling of mousetrap is c-a-t.


Sliced bread hit grocery stores in 1928.
Swedish communications giant, Ericsson, was first to manufacture cellular phones in 1987.
At this very minute 60% of the sky is covered in clouds. 
Today in 1877, inventor Thomas Edison unveiled the phonograph. 
Bread dough always rises when one yeast expects it to. 


10 million people speak Zulu.
NASA officials announced that there are no plans to send children into space—at this time.
Duncan Hines was a real person. 
Governor Thomas Carleton landed in Parrtown to partition the Royal Colony of New Brunswick from Nova Scotia, today in 1764.
My neighbour wanted a candleholder at Giant Tiger; they were out so he bought a cake. 





Food for Thought: Hope, decency and unity are not mere catchwords. ~Jon Ossoff



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