by Diana Filer
1. St Paul is the capita
l city of Minnesota, the sister city of Minneapolis
l city of Minnesota, the sister city of Minneapolis2. Urban legend has it that The ‘Muffin Man’ who lived in Drury Lane in the nursery rhyme was a 19th century baker, Fredrick Thomas Lynwood, who sold muffins (bread) door to door and lured children to their deaths.
3. A massasauga is a rattle snake, a pit viper, the only poisonous species of snake to be found in Ontario.
4. The deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Siberia in Russia, at 1,642 meters (5,387 feet).
5. Postmeridian literally means after noon, in English, the abbreviation being p.m.
