30 June 2019

A medium-sized peach contains 37 calories.

On this date in 1984, John Napier Turner was sworn in as the nation’s 17th Prime Minister. 

During World War Two, Fisher-Price workers built parts for combat planes.

Onyx is formed of bands of chalcedony in alternating colours.  

The rest interval between eating peaches is called a pit stop. 

Slang for $1,000, ‘grand’ entered the lexicon in 1915. 

Deipnophobics struggle with the irrational fear of dinner party conversation. 

Today in 1912, an F4 tornado tore through Regina. 28 were killed and 2,500+ left homeless.

In Europe, the Number One most frequently shoplifted food item is cheese. 

A bore is one with the power of speech but no capacity for conversation. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Labyrinths are unicursal while mazes are branching. 

KFC has restaurants in 115 countries.

A rainbow’s arc is always 42°.

Danes published the story first; Chicken Little discovered the sky was falling in 1823.

A KFC exploded in Saskatoon. Citizens swamped 911 to report Unidentified Frying Objects. 

First played in 1895, volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964.

Japan’s yen is the world’s third most traded currency. 

A typical dinner in France consists of seven courses. 

Fêted since 1960, this is Independence Day for 81 million in the Republic of the Congo.

The most vigilant vegan eats nothing that casts a shadow. 

Food for Thought: The first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next, good sense; the third, good humour and the fourth, wit. ~William Temple