Timbits2Toonies

There are four types of Japanese tea ceremonies. Invented 60 years ago, Pong was the world's first video game. Today in 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the XI Olympiad in Berlin.  A heat wave must consist of three consecutive days where the mercury rises to 32°C. They used to time me with a stopwatch, now they use a calendar. On this date in 1944, Smokey the Bear began his appointed task of preventing forest fires. The Snowcastle of Kemi, Finland- is the world’s largest ice hotel-includes an eatery and a wedding chapel. My housekeeper is only second best—she just walked off with the silver.  Shopper’s Drug Mart, a.k.a. Pharmaprix, operates 1,307 stores in nine provinces and two territories. One fruit contains the elemental combination of barium and double sodium, the BaNaNa. Ford manufactures vehicles and components in 23  countries. An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki today, in 1945. 238 years ago, Farmer Brown named...