26 June 2019



The Pied Piper leads the parade; this is Rat Catcher’s Day in Hamelin, Germany.
Bread exposed to radiant heat for a period of time is called toast. 
Cheers! Salut! Drink up! This is National Dairy Month. 
The Canadian Coast Guard is under the purview of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
Doctors and nurses at the Mayo Clinic do their best to care for wounded sandwiches.


Today in 1959, the Queen and US President Eisenhower opened the St. Lawrence Seaway. 
33.3% of Australians were born outside of the country.
Mercury was the Roman god of thieves and tricksters. 
Christmas became a legal holiday in the United States 149 years ago.
A day on Mercury lasts about 1,408 hours, or about the same as an Earth Monday. 




Buckwheat, rice, quinoa, sorghum and oats are gluten-free whole grains. 
The £1.22 million attack submarine HMS Artful can stay submerged for 25 years.
Today in 1990, Justice Minister Kim Campbell tabled a bill to ban automatic rifles.
Bees buzz at 24 kph. 
My neighbour refuses to make himself sandwiches—he insists on sub-contractors.


Today in 1970, Parliament voted to lower the voting age from 21 to 18.
Stonehenge is a cemetery—64 people are buried within it.
The CN Tower opened for business on this date, in 1976.
Sheep in the meadow and cow in the corn, Little Boy Blue has blown his horn since 1740.
The architectural structure that weighs the least is the lighthouse.


Food for Thought: I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.  ~Suzy Kassem












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