10 February 2019

Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo: Old MacDonald began farming in 1719. Made in Belleville, Ontario, we’ve been crunching on Hawkins Cheezies for 70 years.

We scream when the brain’s fear processing centre is accessed.

Numbering 5,000+ in days of yore, today there are still more than 100 castles in Japan.

Humour about junk food contains zero calories.

Curry powder is the most popular spice mix in the world.

Mickey Mouse has only four fingers.

Animal, plant and synthetic are the three types of thread. 

Today in 1763, France signed the Treaty of Paris, ceding Canada to Great Britain.

A woman who sews for a living is a seamstress. A man who sews as a living is a seamster.

The Guamanian national tree is the coconut. 

In the 1840s, limericks became a popular form of advertising.

Circles have insides and outsides.  

6.3 million South Africans have 130 heart attacks and 240 strokes every day.

Attention Canadians! It is not a real holiday if there are no coconuts.  

An adult can remember as many as 100,000 words. 

The term ‘old wives’ tale’ was first recorded in England in 1387.

The broccoli is a flower. 

Shoppers, a.k.a Pharmaprix, has 1,300 pharmacies in nine provinces and two territories. 

It’s a strange twist of language when skating on thin ice can land one in hot water.

Food for Thought: To believe in destiny removes the power of will and naivety becomes one's fate. ~Unknown