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 ...