Excerpt from CRAZY CANADIAN TRIVIA
by Pat Hancock
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Did You Know...
...that the Stanley Cup, awarded each year to the champions of the National Hockey League, is one of the very few major professional sports trophies that players can take home and show off to their friends? And did you know that Kenora, Ontario, is the smallest community ever to give the cup a home for a year? It happened when the Kenora Thistles won the championship in 1907.
Dinner's Ready!
Cooks in Elgin, Manitoba, had an easy time of it on April 22, 1932. The main course landed in town, cooked and ready to serve, when lightning bolts struck a flock of wild geese flying overhead. The zapped birds fell to the ground crisp and sizzling, so there was no point in letting them go to waste.
From Crazy Canadian Trivia. Copyright © 2000, 2009 by Pat Hancock. Illustrations copyright © 2000, 2009 Scholastic Canada Ltd. All rights reserved.
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