25 August 2019
Santa arrives in 120 more sleeps. Australia produces three times more food than the nation needs. A group of foxes is called a 'leash'. The first edition of the Montréal Gazette hit newsstands today in 1785. Steel wool comes from hydraulic rams. Hostess introduced us to ketchup chips nearly fifty years ago. There are fewer than 21 000 lions in all of Africa. Air density weighs in at 1.29 kilos per square metre. The Allies liberated Paris from Nazi occupation, on this date in 1944. Shake and shake your ketchup bottle, none will come and then a lot'll. Breaking the First Commandment--in 1516--Martin Luther declared dowsing to be a sin. Margrethe II has sat on the Danish throne for 47 years. The Canadian Nazi Party dissolved in 1980. Poland, Bulgaria, Spain and the UK are the EU's primary peanut producers. Folk who haul peanuts to market fill their diesel tanks at Shell stations. The Christian rite of baptism is a sacrament or an ...