18 August 2019
When spruce is the soundboard of a harp, it is called tonewood.
During World War Two, Australian solders got Vegemite in their army rations.
Playing the violin for an hour burns 170 calories.
On this date in 1964, South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games.
Never fiddle with a violin.
The most expensive meal costs $2 million but one keeps the diamond-studded chopsticks.
Sweden's capital city's name was changed from Kristiana to Oslo in 1925.
Woodrow Wilson liked to golf in the snow; he played with black golf balls.
Today in 1977, the Dempster Highway, stretching from Dawson YT to Inuvik, NWT opened.
The game is called 'golf' because all the other four-letter words were taken.
The first domestically-built Studebaker rolled out of the Hamilton, ON factory, today in 1948.
The Senegalese invented the xylophone, to scare birds and critters away from their crops.
4% of the Japanese population practises Shinto.
Those who hesitate are lost, and umpteen klicks from the next freeway exit.
44% of the roads on PEI are unpaved.
King Kong was 7.3 metres in height.
Leonardo da Vinci invented the hygrometer in 1480 AD.
Prisoners behind bars for two years plus a day, are not eligible for Old Age Security.
Bud the Spud, from the bright red mud has hauled potatoes to T.O. for 50 years, now.
Food for Thought: It was a long hard bumpy road, but this country kept me inspired with ts beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country the world. ~Stompin' Tom Connors
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