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Everybody’s Talking | Quotable Quotes | Trivia | What’s Happening | Your Weekly Horoscope | Did You Know? | On the Lighter Side

Pet therapy: Travelers using the Edmonton International Airport in the province of Alberta, Canada, now have the opportunity to snuggle with a furry friend while waiting for their flights. Officials at the airport got together with the folks at the Pet Therapy Society of Northern Alberta for the project. It is thought that access to friendly dogs will help reduce the stress levels of travelers. Volunteers walk dogs through the airport several times a week and the response from weary passengers has been positive. Everyone from toddlers to seniors has smiles on their faces as they pet the friendly animals.

Mail problem: The Royal Mail sent a letter by mail to about 100 residents of a neighbourhood in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in England stating that postal workers would no longer be delivering mail to the area after 150 years of service. The reason cited was the dilapidated state of the private road in the neighbourhood. Postal staff had been falling and hurting themselves on a regular basis. However, they discovered that fixing the road would cost too much. So, unless a compromise can be found, residents of the upscale neighbourhood will have to travel three miles (five kilometres) to a post office elsewhere.

Tongue paintings: An artist in China uses a very unusual item as a paint brush his tongue! It may seem weird, but painting with the tongue allows artists to create works that are unique to them. Han Xiaoming does traditional Chinese sugar painting, which utilizes melted sugar coloured with food dye as a medium. Once when working, Xiaoming took a sip of the water and loved it! That led to using his tongue as a brush. He now gives performances to show people how it is done.

Getting friendly: People who use Facebook, the social media site, often have so many ‘friends’ on their site that they can’t possibly know them all. An Australian man named Matt Kulesza, who has over 1,000 Facebook friends, is one of those people. Rather than accepting that his Facebook friends are only digital acquaintances, Kulesza decided to contact them all and go for a coffee with each of them. He’s having fun meeting old high school buddies or getting together with a Facebook friend he had never actually met before. Matt’s goal is to get people communicating face-to-face once again. What a great idea!

Quotable Quotes

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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” – Gandhi

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass

November 2026

Lucky numbers this week: This week’s odds favour Virgo winners with the luckiest number being 6.

Flying high: Sea planes have pontoons instead of wheels, allowing the craft to land and take off on water. Amphibian planes have retractable wheels as well as pontoons. These flying machines can take off and land on either a lake or a runway.

Unique art: Pablo Picasso is considered one of the most influential artists of the 1900s. Born in Spain, he eventually moved to France where he would complete his most innovative works.

Natural selection: Most animals don’t like hot chili peppers, but birds have a higher tolerance. Birds evolved in this manner, so today they can carry the seeds further afield.

Scent issues: A person who has anosmia can’t smell anything. If someone has dysosmia, things don’t smell the way they smell to most people. People with hyperosmia have a very strong sense of smell.

Runny eyes: People’s eyes sting when they cut up an onion because a gas is released from the onion during the cutting process. Tears dilute the gas and reduce the potency of this eye irritant.

Trivia answers:

1. Himalayas
2. Palette knife
3. Inborn
4. Trucial States
5. Jack Swigert

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Please note this issue was published sometime over the past 10 years. Jokes, Trivia, Stories and Quotes may be time specific or reference maybe made to events which are no longer relevant.