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Russian dressing first appeared in 1900. Today in 1972, the National Assembly made French the official language in Québec. The average hummingbird has 1 000 feathers.  Red blood cells circulate throughout the body for 120 days. Chickens can wing it.  Lord Krishna was a cowherd. Because it is rich in carbon,  scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds. Nunavut's official floral emblem is the purple saxifrage. Mona  Lisa has her own mailbox at the Louvre; she receives thousands of love letters.  Peanuts in outer space are called astronuts. Greenpeace has 2.8 million members around the globe. Fireflies are soft-bodied beetles. Norwegians can return a library book to any branch in the country.  The dollar dropped to 66.10¢ against the US dollar--today in 1998--an historic low.  The economy is so bad, the PM's chef cooks with Filet Mignon Helper. Icebergs give off heat. Aztecs paid their taxes with cocoa. ...

Today in 1871, British Columbia joined Confederation as province number seven. There are six species of Pacific Salmon. Our moon is the fifth largest in the Solar System. From Manitoba with love, the cracked wheat, rye and flaxseed porridge,  Red River Cereal,  has fed millions since 1924. Noah was unable to fish during the the Flood because he had only two worms. There are 49 landlocked nations—two of which are double landlocked. On this date in 1969, men first walked on the moon. The Red River snakes for 880 kilometres from North Dakota-Minnesota to Lake Winnipeg. 350 people list their occupations as agrarian workers in Principality of Liechtenstein.  The first animal to orbit the Moon was the cow who jumped over it in AD 1569. Scorpions, mites, ticks and spiders are all arachnoids. Today in 2005,  the Governor General gave Royal Assent to same-sex marriages. Gorton’s introduced consumers to frozen, ready-to-cook fish sti...

132 years ago today, the first transcontinental Canadian Pacific passenger train departed Montréal. It arrived in Port Moody, BC on 4 July. 12.6% of the Bangladeshi work force is made up of child labourers aged five to fourteen. Because they stack and ship easily, Japanese farmers grow cubed watermelon.  Iceland has 2,000 sheep farms. Sherlock Holmes discovered the missing train by following its tracks.  As Canada's #1 circulating paper, The Toronto Star  hit newsstands in 1892. After being a Belgian colony for 52 years-today in 1960-The Congo gained independence. Wearing purple on Saturday brings good luck according to Thai folklore. More than 75% of Canadians gambled in 2017. Edmonton Journal headline: ‘Blind woman gets kidney from dad she hasn’t seen in years’. Founded in Vancouver in 1969, Greenpeace International has offices in 39 countries.  The oldest continuous labour organization in North America is the Internationa...