01 February 2019
February is Black History Month in Canada and the United States. Individual stems of bamboo are called culms. Nosocomephobes struggle with an irrational fear of hospitals. Thomas Edison was Henry Ford’s boss at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. Appliances work better when plugged into the socket. Today in 1870, the Québec Provincial Police, la Sûreté du Québec was founded. $976 is the price of a plastic-moulded outdoor cubicle, a.k.a the porta-potty. Neither The Bible nor the works of Shakespeare mention tomatoes. Silver is well suited to cutlery because of its natural antibacterial properties. Puns about toilet tissue are tearable. A litre of water weighs one kilo. New York’s Metropolitan Opera House seats 3,900. The Bank of Toronto and the Dominion Bank merged today in 1955 to become the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Made of goose feathers—dyed green—Germans created the first artificial tannenbäu...