06 February 2019


Today in 1951, the Royal Canadian Army entered combat in the Korean Conflict.
4.8 million people live in Liberia.
There are an estimated 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.
Figs were so highly desirable that Marco Polo compared beautiful women to them.
Mars must be colonized. If we don’t do it, squirrels will. 


On this date in 1952, King George VI died in his sleep at the age of 56.
It costs $170 for enough helium to blow up 500 balloons in Oshawa and Durham Region.
Mozzarella was traditionally made from buffalo milk. 
759 million people cannot read or write. 
My next-door neighbour is addicted to Cheddar; he says it’s mild, though.


The Japanese, Americans and French buy the most comic books. 
Hoi polloi is a derogatory Greek expression meaning the common people.
A human hand has 27 bones and an adult male’s hand weighs 500 grams.
Currently there are 4,770 practising psychiatrists from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland. 
Neurotics build castles in the sky. Psychotics live in them. Psychiatrists collect the rent. 


The Supreme Court ruled today in 2016 that the terminally ill have the right to assisted death. 
Civil marriage is illegal in Saudi Arabia. 
Imperial Oil dropped $5 billion today in 1990 to purchase Texaco Canada Limited.
The port side of a craft has a red indicator light on the left while green defines starboard.
Two hydrogen buffaloes plus one oxygen buffalo equals one water buffalo.  



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