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Celebrate, ye southpaws. This is International Left-handed Day. Save the date--there are 137 days until Christmas. Most black onyx is heated and dyed to enhance the depth of colour. The homegrown version of Monopoly first appeared 37 years ago. Lefties do it right. Basic court jester skills included singing, storytelling, magic, acrobatics and juggling. We have never had a Prime Minister who was a lefty. Peridot is August's birthstone. Today in 1955, the Canso Causeway opened, linking Cape Breton to mainland Nova Scotia. Left-handedness is a superpower.  Today in 1941, the Canadian Women's Army Corp was established. It was once a crime to be left-handed in Albania. There are five classifications of amber. Earthlings own more than seven billion cellphones. God made some people perfect, and the other 89% right-handed. Cæsium and lead are the softest metals. Whether rotary or foil, all electric razors either oscillate or rotate. Today in 20...

Today in 1991, StatsCan reported that 10.2% of us were on pogey and looking for work. Cows that graze on lespedeza give considerably less milk.  Gallup conducts polls in 160 nations—98% of the world’s population. Invented in France, the first bicycle rolled out the door in 1791. I have some puns about unemployment but none of them work.  28% of us play keyboard instruments, the nation’s most popular. A strawberry typically has around 200 seeds. Frozen carbon dioxide, a.k.a. dry ice, can’t melt.  Today in 1913, Albania became a sovereign nation.  Prodigy: A child who plays piano when he ought to be in bed. We address the mayor as Your Worship to show honour to our duly-elected First Citizen. Ground clearance on a WWII Jeep is 222.25 millimetres. Composed of densely packed hexagonal prismatic cells, bees live in honeycombs. Today in 1975, the European Space Agency was established. Bees designated to protect the queen of...

Most music is written in the tonality of la mineur (A minor).  A collective of jellyfish is called a smack. Still at large, Goldilocks vandalized the Three Bears’ home 205 years ago. Good-night, carton; good-night, jug; Canadians began buying milk in plastic bags in 1967.  We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop Albania is the 25th most visited nation in Europe.  Chapstick sells a dozen different flavours of lip balm. Grade 13 was abolished by the Ontario Ministry of Education in 2003. 80% of Canadians believe in space aliens. Compromise is the art of making all guests at the table believe they got the biggest slice of cake.  Pizza Hut operates 1,903 restaurants in the People’s Republic of China.  Bonjour! The Michelin Tire man’s name is Bibendum.  A single tree can bear as many as 500,000 olives in a season.  A million Canadians qualify for bariatric surgery but on...