31 December 2018

This is the 365th day of the year. 

At 329 litres per day, Canadians use twice as much water than those in the EU.

The hardest wood in the world is the Australian Buloke.

Tomatoes rank second to potatoes in South African agricultural production.

Newborn baby potatoes are called small fry.  

Arby’s operates more than 3,000 restaurants in eight nations. 

The shelf life of ghee is three months. 

A candle’s flame burns at 1 000°C.

Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as Canada’s capital, today in 1857.

Place mirrors around your lightbulbs and Hydro will send you a monthly cheque. 

Americans, Dutch, British, Japanese and Brazilians rank, in order, as the largest consumers of soap. 

It takes 500 years to produce three centimetres of topsoil.

Armand Bombardier unveiled the world’s first snowmobile, today in 1922.

It’s so cold, the neighbourhood squirrels are wearing Stanfield's. 

Today in 2007, Québec City kicked off its 400th anniversary.

AIR, a.k.a. All India Radio, reaches 99.2% of the nation. 

Humidity is the amount of water the air can hold before it rains. 

Tonight at midnight in 1857, our currency switched to the decimal system from the Pound Sterling.

If the shoe fits, it’s expensive.

Food for Thought: People are never useless, as long as they serve as bad examples. ~Anonymous