24 June 2019



The first hoop skirt was for Queen Joana of Portugal; she needed to hide a pregnancy. 
Today is Discovery Day in NL, marking John Cabot’s 1497 arrival in Bonavista Bay.
Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar, BMW and Toyota are built in Graz, Austria.
Close relatives of mites and ticks, North America is home to 3,400 species of spiders.
Julia Child drove a Chefrolet.



Toronto’s Mary Pickford was the first Hollywood actress to sign a $1million contract, in 1916.
Swiss chard is a biennial. 
17,772 kilometres or railroad track crisscross México. 
This is Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Québec.
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. ~Walter Winchell

Introduced in 1958, the Time-Out Chair is classified as a Type 2 punishment.
Growing wild in all ten provinces, sarsaparilla is a member of the ginseng family.
A newcomer to vocabulary; the word ‘scam’ first slipped off our tongues in the 1960s.
On this date in 1880, in Québec City, O Canada was performed for the first time.
No wonder my neighbour is so shady—his mother was a scamstress.

The plural of cow is kine. 
Deaf people dream in sign language.
Humans are capable of listening to 100 to 125 words a minute.
Front Page Challenge bowed on the CBC today in 1957; North America’s longest-running game show.
Rhetoric is language in a dress suit.


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