There's no such thing as a tree
Trees are a strategy, not a family
Notes
Emoji proposals
Each emoji starts with a detailed justification
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
I'm disproportionately amused by books like this
If you see a coyote
Yell "Go away coyote"
Vancouver Parking By-law 6059
Grocery stores must be mostly parking lot
O Canada's copyright
The government bought the English lyrics for a dollar
Scent trademarks
Crayola has a trademark on the smell of its crayons
The rule of twelfths
A pretty good approximation of cosine
Turkey times
Roast a turkey according to its weight to the 2/3 power
Alberta has no rats
Thanks to decades of ongoing government effort
The Prime Mouser
10 Downing Street has an official cat
No pen testing at Muji
They apparently don't have a bug bounty program
Vessel Tracker
See the location of every ship in the world
General particulars
A great phrase mandated to be posted on all ships
Sunflowers are false flowers
Each "petal" is its own individual flower
BC license plates
Car plates don't use I, O, Q, U, Y, or Z
The many names of Kulshan
"Mount Baker" supplanted multiple indigenous names and an earlier Spanish claim
The bee delay
A cricket match interrupted when the pitch was swarmed
Love Like You
Lyrics from Rebecca Sugar's Steven Universe
"May you live in interesting times"
The "ancient Chinese curse" is an English invention
Vancouver's land use
It's mostly streets and single-family houses
"Pea" is a backformation
Pease was a mass noun, and peasen the plural
"Obviously, pianos do not sing"
Quote from the Happy Birthday copyright ruling
Rubber duck problem solving
A popular programming technique