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23 April 2019

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From Tuktoyaktuk to Pelee Island and points between, today kicks off Canada Book Week. Lusca and mead are the most prominent types of Irish wines.  The word ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word robota, meaning ‘drudgery’. The Russians, Japanese and Chinese plan to colonize the moon by 2030. Human nature is at its weakest level in a bookstore.  Sheep have 24 molars and eight incisors.  The Writers Guild of America West has 20,000 members working in media.  Today in 1830, Roman Catholics in PEI were given the right to vote in colonial elections. The Pillsbury Doughboy was originally named Jonathon.  The Rhinoceros Party’s election platform includes privatizing HRH and paving the Bay of Fundy, for parking. There are 1.99 million Patagonians, of whom 10% live in Chile—90% in Argentina. Domestic manufacturers make 360,000 tonnes of explosives yearly, one of Earth's top five. Lambs can walk within minutes of being born. Sw...