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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...

Today in AD 1512, a Doctorate in Theology was conferred upon Martin Luther. The Little Engine that Could has been chugging along since 1930. 1.47 billion people visit Facebook every day.  Germany withdrew its membership from the League of Nations today in 1933. It is a little known fact that bagpipers walk while they play to get away from the noise.  The sunflower is the symbol of loyalty.  The people spoke; today in 2015 the Grits trounced the Tories in the federal election.  German Shepherds first appeared as a breed in 1899. 4.2% of Queensland’s population is Aboriginal.  My neighbour speaks Esperanto like a native.  The first vending machine dispensed holy water in first-century Roman Egypt. In days of yore, sailors believed that having a black cat on board the ship brought good luck.  Saint Agatha is the patron saint of nurses.  Fiat began building tractors in 1919 and is second in world producti...