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Today in 1971 the British Government moved the £ Sterling to the decimal system. Invented by Italian designers, the beanbag chair is 51 years old.  It has never rained in Calama, Chile.  The Douglas Lake Ranch in Alberta is North America’s largest; 20,000 cattle graze on 480,000 acres of grassland. Ranch hands don’t bother to tell cattle jokes to their dogs—they’ve herd them all before.   February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history that did not have a full moon. Astronauts cannot cry in space because there is no gravity and tears can’t flow.  The Maple Leaf Flag was inaugurated today in 1965, in a Parliament Hill Ceremony. Danes obtain 43.4% of their electricity needs from wind power.  The moon is held in place by moonbeams.  Victorian children played Snap-Dragon: raisins were plucked from a bowl of burning brandy. Mail carriers in Russia wear firearms for protection.  A pregnant goldfish is called ...

The Halifax Morning Herald  marks 144 years today; it merged with The Chronicle in 1949. Knees are the largest and most complex joints in the body. The satellite Sputnik weighed in at 3.1 tonnes. Played the world over, the rules for Hop Scotch were first recorded in 1635.  Plywood experts have nailed the sheets down into seven categories.  When the gingerbread person twisted a knee, the doctor suggested icing it.  The snowdrop is January’s official birth flower. On this date in 1976, Eaton’s issued its final catalogue, after 92 years of publication. The three main parts of a harp include the neck, the sound box and the strings. Icelanders read more books than folks in any other nation.  Remember: In the event of fire, it’s pants before shoes. The mid-sized category of newspapers is called a ‘Berliner’; the next size up is ‘broadsheet’.  Balkan, Swiss and Greek are the three types of yogourt.  Swift Curr...