14 January 2019

The Halifax Morning Herald marks 144 years today; it merged with The Chronicle in 1949.

Knees are the largest and most complex joints in the body.

The satellite Sputnik weighed in at 3.1 tonnes.

Played the world over, the rules for Hop Scotch were first recorded in 1635. 

Plywood experts have nailed the sheets down into seven categories. 

When the gingerbread person twisted a knee, the doctor suggested icing it. 

The snowdrop is January’s official birth flower.

On this date in 1976, Eaton’s issued its final catalogue, after 92 years of publication.

The three main parts of a harp include the neck, the sound box and the strings.

Icelanders read more books than folks in any other nation. 

Remember: In the event of fire, it’s pants before shoes.

The mid-sized category of newspapers is called a ‘Berliner’; the next size up is ‘broadsheet’. 

Balkan, Swiss and Greek are the three types of yogourt. 

Swift Current, Saskatachewan was incorporated as a city, today in 1914.

Bibliosmics love the smell of old books. 

Condense soup, not books.

In 1988, Austria and Australia were first to incorporate holograms into their currencies. 

Napoleon buttons sewn on soldiers’ jackets to keep them from wiping their noses on them.

Billy Boy has been asked, ‘can she bake a cherry pie?’ for the past 107 years.

The minimum length of a federal election is 32 days; the longest ever lasted 78.

Pie in the sky has no calories. 

Willpower and patience diminish as the day wears on. 

The hologram was invented 72 years ago.

Highest in recorded history, Toronto’s homicide rate hit 99; 50 committed with firearms. 

The Duncan grapefruit and the Dancy tangerine sired the tangelo, a.k.a the honeybell.

Air Canada pilots are snobs; they only make friends in high places. 

Swim fins were invented by Benjamin Franklin.

A dozen nations boast aircraft carriers. 

Horse-drawn, double-decker buses first hit the streets in 1847.

The most common surname in The Netherlands is De Jong.

One walks away from good flight; a great flight is one in which

the plane is reusable.

Food for Thought: If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him…The people who give you food give your their heart. ~Cesar Chavez