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Entrepreneur magazine claims that one of the best ways to boost employee morale is by making sure they get….freebies.

The Canadian military is looking at possibly replacing their aging CF-18 jetfighters with new ‘pilot-less drones’. We’re spending $1.3 billion right now to keep those CF-18’s in the air until 2017.

There’s a new book out called "Leaf Abomi-NATION" – it looks at why the Toronto Maple Leafs have stunk for over 40 years. The book sells for $19.67……..the last year the Leaf’s won the cup.

Biologists and biochemists in Austria have determined that plants (when provoked beyond their endurance) are quite capable of committing suicide. When the plant is threatened by either animals or infection, they deliberately sacrifice parts of themselves. They go on to say – that it’s often a wrong assumption that intense heat, lack of water or the ozone kills a plant.