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Four out of every ten Canadian homes are equipped with air conditioning. Wasabi is 11% fat and 46% carbohydrates. Door knobs rotate in a circular fashion while a door handle slides vertically.  The WorldWideWeb-- better known as www. --turns 30 today. People who live in glass houses may as well answer the door. According to the RCMP there are 1.9 million licensed gun owners across the country.  Animals can exhibit tonitrophobia; the abnormal fear of thunder and lightning. Curling stones are made from Blue Hone granite, native to Scotland. The first recorded fondue recipe appeared in a Zurich cookbook in 1699. At the bingo hall, someone shouted AK-47! A lady shouted, “Bingo!” The first iPad was launched in 2010. Cary Grant originated the chocolate-on-the-hotel-pillow tradition in the early 1950s. Toyota spends USD$1 million a minute on research. Newborn baby doves are called squabs. All computers stall out at the same speed. ...

A week-old baguette makes a formidable impromptu weapon; it can knock an enemy out cold.  Make room, NBC. Today in 1927, the Columbia Broadcasting System took to the airwaves. Danish Blue Cheese is aged for eight to twelve months. A 1954 Gallup Poll found a Canadian family of four lived well on $50 weekly—$10 less than in 1951. Many people think they want careers when all they really want are paycheques.  The Faroe Islands became independent of Denmark today in 1946. The Walmart Roll Back price is $999 for a casket.  The primary colours for TV screens and computer monitors are red, green and blue. A potato is 80% water.   Some people drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.  Strawberries grow in all ten Provinces of Canada and each of the 50 United States.  Today in 1885 Montréalers rioted in protest of compulsory smallpox vaccinations. Batology is the taxonomic study of the more than 1,000 known species of...