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There are 185 days until Christmas. Baseball caps were initially marketed as Brooklyn hats.  Montréalers can hail any of the city’s 4,445 taxis.  Today in 1961, the British Colony of Kuwait gained independence. To make money by driving people away, become a cab driver. Cullet is the industry’s term for recycled glass.  Mack Truck delivered its first motorized vehicle—a sightseeing bus—in 1900. It stands alone. A 26-tonne ‘Chubby Cheddar’ was made in 1955, in Granby, Québec. Experienced glassblowers are bestowed the title of Gaffer. Strict vegans refuse to be photographed for fear they might have to say 'Cheese'.  Ontario’s Ministry of Transport simplified traffic with white lines painted on roads in 1930. By 1933 lines had spread continent-wide.  The canon is a simple combustion engine.  Tunisia ranks Number Two in the export of human hair. People don't start wars--governments do. The phrase ‘old hat’ first en...

Niveous is the adjective used to describe anything that resembles snow. Canon is the world’s largest manufacturer of cameras. The average hen lays 228 eggs a year.  Today in 1932, Congress renamed its Caribbean possession Puerto Rico from Porto Rico. At the height of maturity, a pun is full groan.  Baka Bay, in Montenegro, is the world’s southernmost fjord.  The average age of a Monegasque is 51.1 years.  The process of freeze drying food was invented in 1906 by Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval. Tweed is wind and water resistant. There is no evidence that Vikings in L’Anse-aux-Meadows communicated by Norse Code. Today is National Walnut Day, commemorated by millions of Americans.  Twelve months' wait and $495 buys one a shoulder-mounted, stuffed bobcat in Nova Scotia.  Florida is the third most populous of the United States. 250 millilitres of black currents provide 203 milligrams of Vitamin C. Cubs that refuse t...