Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

North American fire stations employed Dalmatians to keep horses company, alert them to an alarm, and clear the way for teams pulling fire engines out on calls.



The U.S. five-dollar bill will get a splash of yellow and purple next month after it was discovered that counterfeiters "could bleach the bills and remake them as $100s



Feb. 29 is Leap Year Day. It is also the fifth Friday of February. The last time February had five Fridays was 1980.


Read the complete story here.

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