01 November 2018
Today in 1755, an earthquake and tsunami killed between 60,000 and 90,000 in Lisbon. Laughing fifteen minutes a day adds two days to your life. Laid end-to-end, all the credit cards on Earth would circle the globe 3.5 times. The porpoise is the second most intelligent mammal on the planet. Punctuality is the art of knowing how late the other party will be. Suzuki means bell wood or bell tree in Japanese. Cats have scent glands on their faces. The birthstone for November is topaz. Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, abdicated his throne today, in 1922. Only the mediocre are always at their best. Elephants love bananas and peel them before they eat them. The maximum one can sue for in an Albertan Small Claims Court is $50,000. 40% of all seaborne cargo is oil. Today in 1956, a coal mine explosion in Springhill, Nova Scotia killed 39; 88 were rescued. We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch proverb ...