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To: ISOMAN who wrote ()	1/15/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: ISOMAN	Read Replies (1) of 539

Did you know? When the Canadian-designed Avro Jet Liner first flew in 1949, it was North America's first and only commercial jet. It never went into production and was destroyed eight years later. Every single MacIntosh apple tree has a "family tree" that goes back to the very first MacIntosh, discovered by John MacIntosh growing wild on his farm in Dundas County, Ontario. That tree lived for 90 years! Until the mid-1800s, paper was made from cotton rags. Then Charles Fenerty decided to take a walk in the Nova Scotia woods. Inspired by the wasps ability to build paper-like nests by chewing up wood, he invented the first pulp paper plant. Today 40% of the world's newspapers are printed on Canadian paper. Canadian Thomas Carroll invented the world's first self-propelled combine harvester in 1938. One person with one combine can do the same work as 200 or 300 people working by hand. Dr. W. R. Franks of Toronto invented the Anti-G suit during World War II. A pilot wearing an Anti-G suit could stand pressure equal to eight times the force of gravity. One in five Canadians grew up bouncing around in a Jolly Jumper. Olivia Poole based her design for the Jumper on "cradle boards" used on the Native reservations where she was raised. Trivial Pursuit was invented in 1979 by two friends in Montreal to settle an argument over who was the better board game player. In 1984 alone, fifteen million Trivial Pursuit games were sold.

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