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Today is Army Day in Brazil. The garnet gemstone was named after the seeds of the pomegranate. The Canadian Canoe Association is 119 years old. 1,343,098 Swazis celebrate King Mswati III's birthday in Eswatini, a.k.a. Swaziland.  Jewellery takes people’s mind off of a lady’s wrinkles.  Sell the lawnmower; AstroTurf went on sale for the first time 55 years ago. Today in 1984, CP Air became a national carrier by burying Eastern Provincial Airways. Stress is the fifth leading factor in skin breakouts. Kiwis relax and unwind in any of the nation’s 13 national parks. Airline pilots should take crash courses. The first lawyers were Athenian Orators.  The American Eel migrates from the Sargasso Sea to Niagara Falls and then the Labrador. Save the date, there are 615 days until Christmas. Today in 1927, New Brunswick legislators voted to take charge of alcohol sales. There are only two jokes about barristers and solicitors—the rest ar...

Having lost her ovis aries in 1805, Little Bo Peep continues the search. The area code for Hades is 666. The Flat Earth Society is locked in mortal combat with NASA. 250,584 sapeur pompiers fight fires in France. The EverBrite candle factory went up in flames—employees stood and sang Happy Birthday. As a transitive verb, the word ‘text’  was coined in 1998. Canada has fourteen commercial shipyards. There are seven categories of pollution.  Parisians were involved in 6,153 car collisions in 2015. Two croissants were crossing Champs-Élysées when one was run over. The other cried, “Oh! Crumb!”  A Toyota has 30,000 parts. Where there walks a logger, there walks a man. Diversity is a fact; inclusion is a choice. 45 kilometres is the length of the Detroit River. If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, my illegal logging operation is a success. 66% of traffic deaths in the US are the result of road rage. Mc...