05 October 2018
Save the date, there are 80 days until Christmas. IBM’s Selectric Typewriter is 57 years old. Mice are nocturnal by nature. Plastic glitter began to sparkle in 1934. Throwing acid is wrong, in some people’s eyes. A ten-year passport costs $160. The corn muffin is the official quickbread in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Spelling is the combination of alphabetic symbols that form a written, word. Today in 1793, Christianity was ‘disestablished’ in France. British dog catchers are paid by the pound. We have been eating jelly beans for 157 years. Renault is the third most popular automobile in the European market. Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space on this date in 1984. In AD 1457, King James II banned golf. The name Karl Marx must be written in lower case letters because he hated capitalism. Time marches on, at the rate of 31,556,926 seconds a year. Jerusalem artichokes make an excel...