19 April 2019


Today is Army Day in Brazil.
The garnet gemstone was named after the seeds of the pomegranate.
The Canadian Canoe Association is 119 years old.
1,343,098 Swazis celebrate King Mswati III's birthday in Eswatini, a.k.a. Swaziland. 
Jewellery takes people’s mind off of a lady’s wrinkles. 


Sell the lawnmower; AstroTurf went on sale for the first time 55 years ago.
Today in 1984, CP Air became a national carrier by burying Eastern Provincial Airways.
Stress is the fifth leading factor in skin breakouts.
Kiwis relax and unwind in any of the nation’s 13 national parks.
Airline pilots should take crash courses.


The first lawyers were Athenian Orators. 
The American Eel migrates from the Sargasso Sea to Niagara Falls and then the Labrador.
Save the date, there are 615 days until Christmas.
Today in 1927, New Brunswick legislators voted to take charge of alcohol sales.
There are only two jokes about barristers and solicitors—the rest are true. 


The RCAF flies 258 manned aircraft and nine drones; Elizabeth II is Commander-in-Chief.
Goosebumps formed by stress are a vestigial reflex; porcupines experience them, too.
The most common surname in the Kingdom of Tonga is Finau. 
Men stutter four times more often than women.
The RCAF holds a perfect aviation record—it has never left a pilot in mid-air.


Food for Thought: For-and-twenty Yankees, feeling very dry, went across the border to fetch a pint of rye. When they had wet their whistles, the Yanks began to sing, “God bless America but God save the King.”  ~Unknown










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