13 September 2018
Today is World Chocolate Day. Detroit has 70,000 abandoned buildings, 31,000 abandoned homes and 90,000 vacant lots. In many Asian cuisines, slices of ginger are eaten between courses, to cleanse the palette. The Black Forest measures 160 kilometres in length and is 60 kilometres wide. Fingers grow on leather palms. 40% of the world’s oil comes from the Indian Ocean. Victorian doctors routinely prescribed fried mice as a remedy for children who wet the bed. Today in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev became General Secretary of the USSR's Communist Party. Declared satanic, Pope Clement VII loved coffee; he baptized it and give it Christian food status in 1600. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. With radiation therapy, 56% of Canadians survive lung cancer. Fried mice are a popular street snack in Malawi. General Wolf beat the Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, in the Battle of Québec, tod...