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In the earliest version, Little Red Riding Hood was Italian. Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the medical term for brain freeze. Today in 1968, Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as the nation’s 15th Prime Minister. The plural of mongoose is mongooses.  The world would be a kinder, gentler place if we ate more ice cream.  The Detroit River is 44 kilometres in length.  As a member of the goose-foot clan, spinach is related to beets. On this date in 1989, the last  $1 paper bill was printed. The most common surnames in Jamaica are Campbell, Brown and Clarke. You can’t borrow money from leprechauns because they’re a little short. As copper oxidizes, the green carbonate that forms is called verdigris.  Adidas and Reebok are the second and third largest shoe manufacturers on the planet. Today in 1946, the League of Nations convened for the last time. Canada geese number more than five million.  One day we will need t...

Having lost her ovis aries in 1805, Little Bo Peep continues the search. The area code for Hades is 666. The Flat Earth Society is locked in mortal combat with NASA. 250,584 sapeur pompiers fight fires in France. The EverBrite candle factory went up in flames—employees stood and sang Happy Birthday. As a transitive verb, the word ‘text’  was coined in 1998. Canada has fourteen commercial shipyards. There are seven categories of pollution.  Parisians were involved in 6,153 car collisions in 2015. Two croissants were crossing Champs-Élysées when one was run over. The other cried, “Oh! Crumb!”  A Toyota has 30,000 parts. Where there walks a logger, there walks a man. Diversity is a fact; inclusion is a choice. 45 kilometres is the length of the Detroit River. If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, my illegal logging operation is a success. 66% of traffic deaths in the US are the result of road rage. Mc...