12 August 2019


Tonight is the peak of meteor shower season.
Lithuania's Official National Sport is basketball.
The first paper straw was made by winding a strip of paper around a pencil.
StatsCan says 3 174 of us have chosen assisted death since the law was enacted in 2017.
Basketball players want drug tests to be multiple choice.

The name Mary is derived from Hebrew; it means 'bitter'. 
During World War Two, Italians made synthetic wool from milk. 
This is the 201st Royal St. John's Regatta, the continent's oldest continuous sporting event.
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
To make a racing shell look younger, treat it with boat-tox.

Prince Edward Island has six Francophone schools.
Canadians generate 31 million tonnes of garbage a year; we only recycle 30%.
168 years ago today, Isaac Singer received a patent for a 'sewing machine'.
90 years ago, 7up was introduced under the name Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda. 
My neighbour worked for Pepsi-Cola but he was fired when he tested positive for Coke.

In 1930, Joseph Stalin abolished weekends in the USSR, and introduced a six-day week. 
There is no waste in nature; ecosystems completely recycle themselves.
Established in 1957, in Florenceville, NB, McCain is the 19th largest company in the nation.
85 000 Ethiopian civilians and 15 000 soldiers were killed in World War Two.
Silicon chips are not nearly as tasty as the potato variety. 

Food for Thought: Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day. ~Benito Mussolini




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