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04 June 2019

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Today is Independence Day in Tonga, a British Protectorate from 1900 to 1970. Acorns are toxic to dogs and horses. Since there are no contradictions, adherents of Shinto often practise Buddhism, as well. Vegans shun avocados--farmers truck bees from orchard to orchard-- as pollination slaves. The tofu crossed the road to prove he wasn’t chicken. Today in 1792, Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Great Britain. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,’ uses all 26 alphabet letters--a pangram.  Turks and the Irish are the world’s largest consumers of tea.  Queen Elizabeth II owns Stonehenge. Newbies to the tea culture encounter a steep learning curve. Aztecs raised Chihuahuas for their meat. Salt is electrically neutral.  3.7% of PE Islanders live on farms. Today in 1989, the Chinese Army quashed protesters in Tiananmen Square; 241 killed. When elephants want a light snack, they eat candles. Hands dow...