08 June 2018
The FBI accused Helen Keller of being a member of the Communist Party. To buy a parking spot in downtown Manhattan, cut a cheque for USD$1 million. Archangel Gabriel is the patron saint of telecommunications. From Cape Breton to Vancouver Island the price for a loaf of bread was 6¢ —in 1914. The upper crust is the most snobbish of bread. Plutonium sells for $4,000 a gram. PEI leads the nation in recycling. Next-door neighbour, New Brunswick, ranks last. At £24 billion, the most expensive thing on Earth is the UK's Hinkley Nuclear Station. Mexicans prefer poultry to beef by a margin of two to one. Many tourists shun visits to Karl Marx’ grave because they believe it is a Communist plot. Porcupines float. Kitchener, Ontario is the birthplace of the world’s first Blue Box recycling program. In Sanskrit, ‘the desire for more cows’ translates into English as ‘war’. Humans are the only earthly species capable of planning. The lazy cobbler wa...