by Diana Filer
1. Palladium is the most expensive precious metal…costing almost 100 times as much as the same amount of silver. It is used in catalytic converters in the automobile industry, jewelry and in the military.
2. ‘This Country in the Morning’ and ‘Morningside’ were the 2 CBC radio programs hosted by Peter Gzowski.
3. The American side of Niagara Falls was made to run dry in 1969 by US engineers in order to study its erosion and stability. The falls stayed closed until November of that year.
4. The Beatles song that has sold the most is ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’, followed by ‘She Loves You’.
5. Marc Garneau held the cabinet posts of Minister of Transport and Minister of Foreign Affairs in a Liberal government.
