07 October 2018
On this date in 1949, the Communist Democratic Republic of Germany was created. A goldfish has an attention span of nine seconds; a human’s span is eight. Mercedes-Benz is the world’s number one truck manufacturer. A traditional Hindu wedding can take seven days. They get boiling mad, give off some steam: that's the life of ice cubes. Carnegie funded 2,519 libraries in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. 85% of all plant life grows under water. Air France came into existence on this day in 1933. It is no stretch of the imagination—elastic was invented in 1820. The Titanic didn’t have enough lifeboats-and that was just the tip of the iceberg. Silk is hypoallergenic. The Airbus A380 can carry 853 passengers. It is the sulphuric acid in an onion that makes us cry. 255 years ago today, the Nova Scotia legislature convened for the first time. Take a number to keep your wait under control....