24 July 2018
Californians are less likely to barbecue on Tuesday than any other day of the week. Today in 1963, Nova Scotia's Ambassador of Sail, Bluenose II, was launched in Lunenburg. A group of ferrets is called a business. In 1547, bagpipes were introduced onto the battlefield as a weapon of war. Two decades before national health care, the old lady who swallowed the fly did so in 1947. In 1853, Mr. Christie began making g-o-o-d cookies in Toronto. The short-link radio technology Bluetooth was initiated in 1989 in Sweden. Americophbics struggle with the irrational fear of all things American. Mexico’s Avocado Belt provides 45% of the world’s alligator pears. Lock, stock and barrel, it was 1794 when the old woman who lives in the shoe moved in with her tribe of tots. In 17th Century New England, the term Blue Law was coined—blue meaning strict or pure. The burn point of avocado oil is 271°C. 900,000 folks in Fiji tune into Radio Australi...