Cheer of the Day - 14

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Did you know?

1. Apparently, there is a town in Canada called Churchill and it has a 20-cell prison specially built for polar bears that cause trouble. If a local sees and reports a polar bear scavenging in the town’s rubbish bins, they imprison the bear for a certain amount of time. When the bear is released from the prison, a green button is tagged behind its ear. If the same bear, wearing the green tag, returns to the town, it is jailed again and this time they put a red button when releasing.
If the red-buttoned bear attempts to come back, it’s shot on sight.

2. If you fly from Tokyo to Honolulu at 7 in the morning, you will arrive at your destination at 4.30p.m., the previous day.

3. In the 2001 official census, initiated for residents of a number of English-speaking countries, 390,000 partakers claimed to be Jedis – the fictional religion in Star Wars. This contrasts with just 250,000 Jews.

4. According to a legend, tea was first discovered by the Chinese emperor and inventor Shennong in 2737 BCE. Apparently, the emperor liked to drink his water clean and boiling was his way of sterilizing it.

One day when a servant started to boil some water for his master, a wild tea leaf from a nearby bush fell into the pot and gave it a brownish color. The color wasn’t noticed as it was delivered to the emperor, when he drank it, he found it very refreshing, and that’s how Cha (Tea) came to being! (According to the Legend)

5. When the railway was invented, some people believed that anyone travelling faster than 

12mph would face mental problems. This kind of naivety still exists among us, wake up!

Joke:  

A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" Father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."

Riddle:

What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves?

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Answer to previous riddle: water.