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Plastic bags derive their strength from elasticity.  The CCF voted to change its name to the New Democratic Party, today in 1958. Fencing is one of only four sports to be in the Olympics since the 1896 restart. In India, the colour blue is reserved for mourning.  The Trudeau government will ban plastic--it's the last straw. The human ear contains the smallest muscles in the body.  Today in 1967, de Gaulle shouted, "Vive le Québec libre!" to 100,000, fanning separatism.   Stone masons make the best money in all of the construction trades. India had two time zones until 1955. Weightlifting vegetables are called muscle sprouts.  Denmark and New Zealand rank first and second as the least corrupt nations on the planet. 85% of teens struggle with acne.  Not Helvetic, Swiss steak takes its name from the butcher's term of 'swissing' or tenderizing. This is Simón Bolivar Day in Venezuela, Ecuador, Columbia and Bolivia. If all corrupt peo...

Californians are less likely to barbecue on Tuesday than any other day of the week. Today in 1963, Nova Scotia's Ambassador of Sail, Bluenose II, was launched in Lunenburg. A group of ferrets is called a business. In 1547, bagpipes were introduced onto the battlefield as a weapon of war. Two decades before national health care, the old lady who swallowed the fly  did so in 1947. In 1853, Mr. Christie began making g-o-o-d cookies in Toronto. The short-link radio technology Bluetooth was initiated in 1989 in Sweden. Americophbics struggle with the irrational fear of all things American. Mexico’s Avocado Belt provides 45% of the world’s alligator pears.  Lock, stock and barrel, it was 1794 when the old woman who lives in the shoe moved in with her tribe of tots. In 17th Century New England, the term Blue Law was coined—blue meaning strict or pure. The burn point of avocado oil is 271°C. 900,000 folks in Fiji tune into Radio Australi...