Timbits2Toonies

When spruce is the soundboard of a harp, it is called tonewood. During World War Two, Australian solders got Vegemite in their army rations. Playing the violin for an hour burns 170 calories.  On this date in 1964, South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games. Never fiddle with a violin.  The most expensive meal costs $2 million but one keeps the diamond-studded chopsticks. Sweden's capital city's name was changed from Kristiana to Oslo in 1925. Woodrow Wilson liked to golf in the snow; he played with black golf balls.  Today in 1977, the Dempster Highway, stretching from Dawson YT to Inuvik, NWT opened. The game is called 'golf' because all the other four-letter words were taken. Tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and cauliflower produce nicotine, a defensive poison. The first domestically-built Studebaker rolled out of the Hamilton, ON factory, today in 1948. The Senegalese invented the xylophone, to scare birds and critters away from their ...

Today in 1608 Samuel de Champlain founded Québec City. Robins lay one egg a day for five, sometimes six days. Rip Van Winkle slept for twenty years.  The thirty varieties of turnip belong to the mustard family.  Sleeping bags make great nap sacks.  A python sleeps eighteen hours a day.  Because of dog bites, 13,600 Australians went to hospital Emergency Rooms last year. The actual time it takes for Earth to make a full rotation is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.2 seconds. Idaho became the 43rd State on this date in 1890. There are 440 known species of sharks—441 when one counts loan. At this very moment, worldwide, there are more than a billion bottles of champagne in storage. The largest potato ever weighed in at 3.76 kilos. Québec City is divided into six boroughs.  A group of yeast cells is called a colony.  In Third World countries folks can’t drink the water; in First World countries they can’t breathe the air....