11 February 2019

33 countries’ names do not include the letter ‘A’.

The strongest muscle is the masseter; it can chomp with a force of 100 kilos on your molars.

Children must stay in school until they are 18, in Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick. 

Queen Elizabeth II keeps a rubber duckie in her bathtub; it wears an inflatable crown. 

We all learn by experience but some of us have to attend summer school.

It was 19 years ago that the Plymouth brand of automobile went to automobile heaven.

Concentrate: a rebus puzzle contains pictures, letters, words and numbers connected by +. 

There have only been eleven Duchesses of York.

Every winter, some 5 million tonnes of salt cover the nation’s highways and byways.

Snowmen’s preferred form of transportation is the icicle. 

The tongue is the only muscle attached at one end. 

Vehicles’ taillights are red because it is the colour of blood and represents danger.

Polar Bear Provincial Park is visited by fewer than 500 people a year. 

The electric toothbrush was invented in 1960.

My next-door neighbour doesn’t need a knife; he cuts his food with his tongue. 

Motel—a portmanteau of motor hotel—entered the lexicon in 1925.

Singing can be formal, informal, arranged or improvised.

19 bridges cross the St. John River. 

The sum of all numbers on a roulette wheel equals 666.

Anything too stupid to be said is put into song. ~Voltaire

Food for Thought: Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts. ~Mussolini