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Today in 1961, forest fires around Bonavista Bay forced 3,000 people to evacuate.  Soccer is played on a grassy field called a pitch. Wine is made from the sap of the palm tree. Some 33,000 people a year die superbug infections in the EU. Hangovers attributable to wine are grape depressions.   52% of Britons voted to leave the European Union, today in 2016. It is illegal to own a bear in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From St. John’s to Victoria, we shop at any of 967 thrift stores. 12 millilitres of Crisco contains 110 calories. If you can’t leave in a taxi, then leave in a huff. If that’s too fast, leave in a minute-and-a-huff.  The intransitive verb ‘buddy’ entered the lexicon in 1896. Mt. Hallasan in South Korea is an active volcano. In the 1770s,  the Dutch began to preserve food in cans--opened with hammer and chisel. En route from Montréal to London, Air India Flight 182 was blown up, today in 1985; 268 Canadians peri...

95% of all corn squeezin’s—aka—bourbon, is distilled in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Stand under them if you like, but mistletoe and holly berries are toxic, if ingested. Fat is one of three energies necessary to fuel the human body. Today in 1796, The United States took possession of Fort Detroit from Britain.  Cinderella never wanted a prince. What she asked for was a pretty dress and a night off. In Days of Yore, doctors believed the heart ruled the body: cold-hearted, hard-hearted and half-hearted were once medical terms. Kentucky is one of twelve jurisdictions in America’s Corn Belt. There are 166 days until Christmas. Today is Free Slurpee Day in North America’s 8,784—count ‘em— 7-11 stores. Some knights in shining armour turn out to be knaves clad in tinfoil.  As WWII wound down, ten million Germans fled Poland in advance of the Red Army.  340 million hectares of the planet’s forest land went up in flames last  year....