11 July 2019
This is World Population Day for 7.53 billion-plus Earthlings. Toronto hired its first urban planning commissioner in 1914. Rules for the new sport, croquet, were registered in 156 years ago. Conspiracy theories are a matter of faith, not truth, and correlate highly with paranoia. I want to live in a world where people have 'on' and 'off' buttons. Someone who plays the lute is called a luthier. Australian football rules require 18 players per team. Humans make food from 2,000 varieties of plant life. Today in 1990, QPP Constable Marcel Lemay died in a gun battle during the Oka Crisis. UN stats show that all humans who contract the habit of eating, die. Actress Brett Somers was born on this date in Saint John, New Brunswick. Archery is the national sport in Bhutan. Eating too many makes one sleepy; onions contains a natural sedative. Today in 1906, Senators passed the Lord's Day Act. It will be ruled unconstitutional in 1985....