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Today in 1965, Cross Country Checkup debuted on CBC Radio. Scots consider May to be an unlucky month. The phrase ‘when pigs fly’ is an adynaton, an extreme hyperbolic figure of speech. 34 muscles move the fingers and thumb. Spotted a one-armed man at the second-hand shop.  Pain, nausea and flu-like symptoms are results of sugar withdrawal. Limestone is often added to paint as a thickening agent.  Today in 1990, a fire broke out in Québec. It took four days to snuff the 3 million-tire inferno. One horsepower equals 735.5 watts. Glucose guardian is the gender-neutral term for ‘sugar daddy’. We have been shopping at amazon.ca since 2002. Ranking as Earth’s third least-indebted nation, Estonia’s national debt is 9.5%. Samurai were divided into twelve ranks. According to biblical account, King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 mistresses. Bargain: A transaction in which each party thinks he has cheated the other. 53% of Michigan i...

Carve that jack-o’-lantern, there are 23 days until Hallowe’en. The average Hong Konger walks four kilometres a day, the most on the planet. Polyethylene and polypropylene are the two most common plastics. The ooey-gooey Nanaimo bar recipe first appeared in a 1953 cookbook.  Appéritif: a full set of dentures.  BMW’s first car, the Dixi, bowed in 1929; prior to that the firm manufactured aircraft engines. There are three types of snails.  Irving Oil operates 900 gas stations in Atlantic Canada, Québec, eastern Ontario and New England. Today in 2006, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test. The wedding was very emotional; even the cake was in tiers. Vancouver is the bank robbery capital of Canada. Chickens often sneeze. Costco is the world’s second largest retailer.  This is Leif Erikson Day in Iceland, Norway and the United States. So you skipped Helsinki on your Nordic Tour. Your life remains un-Finnished. ...

There are 143 days until Christmas. A cherry pie requires 250 cherries, on average. Last year, 180,000 new homes were built in Canada. Harley-Davidson manufactures motorcycles in Brazil and India and soon, Thailand. The future for teddy bears can only be a picnic. Grand Canyon National Park welcomes 5 million visitors annually. Mercantilism is the opposite of the free trade system.  They walk among us; it is estimated that Earth is home to 420 million teddy bears. The State of Michigan boasts four million cherry trees. Bargain Hunter: One who is led astray by false profits. The English word ‘set’ has more than 430 different definitions. The largest igloo ever built is in Zermatt, Switzerland. December 25th is an official holiday in Pakistan and Jordan—but only for Christians. The US imports more oil from Canada and Mexico than it does from the Middle East. Christmas is a deeply religious time for most— they worship in the mall of their c...