31 March 2019

Bon Appetit! becomes Guden Appetit! in Luxembourgish.

At the stroke of midnight, tonight in 1949, Newfoundland joined Confederation.

240,000 people are injured by lightning annually; the estimated global death toll is 6,000.

More than two million wood-to-gas powered vehicles were built from 1939 to 1945.

The trouble isn’t that there too many fools but that lightning is poorly distributed.

There are four types of turnstiles. 

All soldiers in the Royal Norwegian Army are trained in ski combat.

Today in 1821, McGill University received its Royal Charter.

Water expands by 9% when it freezes.

Never participate in a sport that have ambulances at the bottom of a hill. 

The cotton industry employs more than 100 million people.

Counting is a universal human activity. 

’The Year with no Summer’ was 1816; it snowed for 12 months in Europe and North America.

After a 15-day trek over the Himalayas, today in 1959, the fleeing Dalai Lama got to India.

There are three types of people: those who can count and those who can’t.

General Motors uses 30,000 robots in its production lines.

The fruit of the cotton plant is the boll.

Five million square kilometres of Mars has been charted as desert land.

Today in 1904, there were 45 autos in Montréal. The number rose to 102 in 1905.

My neighbour is often angry; clutch failure really grinds his gears.

Food for Thought: It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ~Noel Coward