History

1925 Trip Across Canada, Coloured video (link)

Quotable

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katherine Hepburn

Prices from the Past

Average Cost of New Car 1960... $2,600

100 Years Ago

Women's suffrage. Though the United States was founded under democratic principles, only a minority of its population (starting with white landowning males over the age of 21) could actually vote. But after the 19th Amendment of the Constitution is passed, women finally gain a voice and the right to cast their ballots.

Showbiz Trivia

In 2002, Steven Spielberg finally finished college after a 33-year hiatus. He turned in Schindler’s List for his student film requirement.

Trees are awesome

This incredible vibrantly colored red maple is estimated to be 200 years old with a trunk diameter of nearly 3 feet at its widest.

Prices from the Past

Average Cost Of New Home 1950... $8,450

Fun Stats

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Legal

Bayer and BASF get hit for $265 million (click to view)

It sold for how much?

1957 Ferrari 335S, Artcurial Auctions, Paris, France, $35,711,359 USD

Digital Puzzle

Amalfi by Alessio Bachetti (click to do puzzle)

Stocks2Watch

Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc TSX: EGLX (click to view)

US Economics

Americans owe more than $1 trillion in consumer credit card debt. A fighter jet at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, would take 14 years before reaching that amount.

Crazy Laws

It's illegal to pee in the ocean in Portugal.

In Memoriam

Kirk Douglas, the star of many epic movies such as "Spartacus" and "Champion" and one of the great Hollywood leading men has died. He was 103.

Classic Moto

Suzuki SW-1

National Days

February 17... National Cabbage Day

International Auctions

Sotheby's... some vintages going $12,000 a bottle. (click to view)

Famous Last Words

Marie Antoinette stepped on her executioner’s foot on her way to the guillotine. Her last words: “Pardonnez-moi, monsieur.”

Frozen in Time

Titanic survivors boarding the Carpathia in 1912

Factoids

Which 3 countries do not use the metric system? Liberia, Myanmar and the United States.

Famous Last Words

‪Frank Sinatra died after saying, “I’m losing it.”

National Days

February 16... National Almond Day

Cool Stuff

Aritzia - Tna, The Super Puff™ Vest, Goose-down puffer vest (click to view) (sponsored)

Investment

MasterWorks... Browse paintings to invest in by the most popular mid-career and established artists. (click to view)

Quotable

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius

Thinking Out Loud

If we all made the first 90% of the toothpaste tube last as long as we do the last 10, we could collapse the toothpaste industry inside a month."

Word

Commensalism: an association between two organisms in which one benefits from the relationship.

YouTube Me

Unique music video > Gold... Chet Faker (click to view)

Country Rankings

Countries by IQ (click to view)

Sports Trivia

A race car with a wood-burning engine finished 3rd in the 1927 Indianapolis 500.

National Days

February 18... National Drink Wine Day

Quotable

"I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake." Lewis Black

YouTube Me

Funny Fur (click to view)

Societal

KEEP? ----- AIRBNB... Around the world, airbnb is causing residential rental availabilities, especially in urban areas, to plummet causing the rents to skyrocket. They should be banned, curtailed or heavily taxed.

Sports Trivia

The average life span of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches.

Celebrity Wealth

Bruno Mars, Singer... $175 Million

Famous Aquarians

Meat Loaf Club

Hungarian Meat Loaf (Click to view)

In Memoriam

Buck Henry, the legendary screenwriter behind The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? who also co-created Get Smart and was a regular presence in the early years of Saturday Night Live, died recently of a heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Health Center in Los Angeles. He was 89.

100 Years Ago

Molasses made headlines. Boston suffered an usual and deadly disaster after a large storage tank filled with 2 million gallons of molasses burst and flooded the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour. North End residents later claimed that the air smelled sweet for decades afterwards.

General Trivia

The fortune cookie was invented... in California.

Fun Stats

There are 1 million ants for every person on earth.

Showbiz Trivia

Samuel L. Jackson demanded that the studio keep Snakes on a Plane as the title because it was the only reason he accepted the role.

Then and Now

New York City 1856 and 2013

Prices from the Past

Average Cost 1lb Hamburger in 1940... 20 cents... in 1990... 89 cents

Celebrity Wealth

Wayne Gretsky, Ex-Hockey Player... $200 Million

Thinking Out Loud

4 am is extremely late but 5 am is extremely early.

Cool Stuff

reMarkable - the only digital device that feels like paper. A digital tool for note-taking, reading and reviewing documents. (click to view) (sponsored)

Tombstones

Tombstone of a gay Vietnam veteran

Sports Trivia

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

Quotable

"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things." - George Carlin

Fun Stats

The average North American eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.

In Memoriam

Don Larsen, the journeyman pitcher who reached the heights of baseball glory in 1956 for the New York Yankees when he threw a perfect game and the only no-hitter in World Series history, died Wednesday night. He was 90.

Gastronomical

Penne Pasta with Chicken Sausage and Kale

It sold for how much?

Pablo Picasso - Title: Femme écrivant (Marie-Thérèse), Medium: oil on canvas. Sold For: $44,632,804 US

Tombstones

Walter Stauffen

Showbiz Trivia

The voice actors of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse from the 1930s got married in real life.

Factoids

‪Which nail grows fastest? The middle one.

World Record

World’s Largest Pizza. The delicious monstrosity measured 131-feet in diameter, tipped the scales at over 51,000 pounds, and contained 1,488 pounds of margarine, 19,800 pounds of flour, 10,000 pounds of tomato sauce, 8,800 pounds of mozzarella cheese, 551 pounds of salt, 220 pounds of lettuce.