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Athazagoraphobics suffer from the irrational fear of being forgotten or ignored. Idiot mittens are  attached with yarn—through coat sleeves—to keep them from being lost. This is Independence Day for those who live in The Gambia, freed from Britain’s rule in 1965. The Ski-Doo was the Ski-Dog until the painter mis-painted the name on the prototype. There were no gunslingers in early western Canada because they all wore mittens.  Strict vegans abhor silk.  There are precisely 138 terminal board positions in a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. Today in 1815, the Treaty of Ghent was proclaimed in Washington, ending the War of 1812. Art Deco reigned as the international style king from 1925 to 1939.  The tofu crossed the road to prove it wasn’t chicken.  The top request by our soldiers in WWII was Hockey Night in Canada ; smokes came second. The Egg McMuffin was first introduced to fast food junkies in 1972.  Today in 1861, Jefferso...

We ring in a new year in 80 days.  Eight nations border the Adriatic Sea.  Women have twice as many pain receptors as men.  The British submarine  HMS Artful can stay submerged for 25 years without surfacing. After buying a waterbed, the newlyweds drifted part. Samsung means ‘tri-star’ in Korean.  Little Jack Horner has sat in the corner for 239 years. Camel meat must be braised before cooking, to make it palatable. Today marks Persons Day in Canada, the date in 1929 when the Imperial Privy Council ruled that women were persons, not chattel.  When bottled water is marked down by 50%, it’s a liquidation sale. The average pumpkin contains 500 seeds.  Arts Décoratifs, a.k.a. Art Deco, was first showcased in Paris, in 1925.  Cheesecake was a well-known dessert in ancient Greece. Lights! Camera! Today in 1977, we became the first nation to broadcast Parliament live. Rain falls on a regular basi...

Health care accounts for 18% of the US economy. 60,000 Protestant nuns, mostly European, belong to religious orders. Art Deco styling dominated the automobile industry in the 1930s. four cups of coffee—400 mgs of caffeine—is the daily max, according to the Mayo Clinic. The traditional milking stool had only three legs because the cow had the udder. Forty years ago, Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, was born in England. Amazon employs more than 117,000 employees world-wide. Preceded by Art Nouveau and followed by Art Deco, Arts & Crafts architecture flourished between 1910 to 1925. Icelandic parents get seven months of parental leave; 90% of fathers take ‘Daddy Leave’.  People who can see two years into the future have 2020 vision.  Kids have played the card game, Old Maid, since Victorian times.  Good-bye is a contraction of the phrase ‘God be by ye’. Delivering packages since 1967, Purolator is 91% owned by Canada Post....