11 March 2019

There are 295 days until the end of the year.
Four tonnes of grapes are needed to make a tonne of raisins.
The first electric clothes dryer went on sale in 1938.
Feral cats often live in colonies.
Raisins are worried grapes. 


The varenky, a.k.a. the perogie, is the national dish of the Ukraine.
Small Claims Courts in Manitoba adjudicates claims up to $10,000.
New Zealand has no snakes.
Today in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union.
God made snakes before lawyers as a practise exercise. 


24-karat gold is 99.9% pure.
There are three different ways to extinguish a fire.
Those whose favourite colour is orange are optimistic and extroverted.
The Bank of Canada was established on this date in 1935.
There’s only thing wrong with my neighbour’s car is that it’s on fire.


Jewellery was originally worn to ward off evil.
The loonie is a hendecagon; an eleven-sided coin.
The motorized forklift was invented in 1917.
At three grams, the avocado has the highest protein content of all fruit. 
Dogs never have any money because they have no pockets.


Food for Thought: The right thing to do never requires subterfuge; it is simple and direct. ~Calvin Coolidge






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