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Swedes customarily serve pizza coleslaw. This is International Milk Day. Greenland and Britain share a time zone. Old King Cole has been a merry old soul since 1708. Strip-mining coal prevents forest fires.  Pearl is the official birthstone of June.  In 1965, Nissan opened in Vancouver with six workers and promptly signed up 84 dealers. Vocal cords are actually folds of skin.  After nearly 90 years, today in 1979, white minority rule in Rhodesia ended. Bumper sticker: Please honk if anything else falls off my Datsun.  The higher the altitude, the greater one’s sleep disruption.  Catholic schools are publicly funded in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. The essential feature of worsted wool is it long, straight parallel fibres. Today in 1968, 87-year old Helen Keller died in her sleep. A sleeping bag makes the perfect nap sack. Today in 1942, Ottawa instituted sugar rationing—250 millilitres per adult, per week...

Today in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia. Folks in Thailand believe that starting school on a Thursday brings good luck. Should you spot a spy in Seoul, call Emergency 113 to report. A banjo can have four, five or six strings.  What sets the human race apart from other animals is we do not fear vacuum sweepers. The first mention of the banjo is 1687; a musical instrument created by slaves in Jamaica. 13% of Americans eschew breakfast. A ceiling fan reduces winter heat consumption by 20%. Peruvians cultivate more than 3,000 varieties of potatoes. Electricity is nothing more than organized lightning.   Baby newts are called efts.  Zeigerphobics struggle with the irrational fear of vacuum cleaners.  Those who play the banjo are called banjoists. Robin Hood began robbing from the rich and giving to the poor in the 1370s. The Road to Hell is paved with Lego. Bullfrogs do not sleep. ...

This is UN World Refugee Day-someone is displaced-somewhere, every two seconds. Chromatophobes suffer from an irrational fear of money.  The first laptop computers were manufactured in 1981; an Osborne 1 cost USD$1,795. America’s first fast food chain, White Castle, is 96 years old.  Brokers choose the biz after realizing they don’t have the charisma to be funeral directors. From Maine to Hawaii, today is National Vanilla Milkshake Day. Chev was first with a radio, in 1922. It sold for USD$510 and the radio an additional $200. Founded 180 years ago, Number One English-language newspaper is The Times of India. There are 140 species of anchovies. The pair of pianists had a good relationship; they were always in a chord.     The Vienna Zoo opened in 1752. 2% of Israelis practise Christianity.  At £160,000, a single shenzhen nongke rose is the most expensive flower ever sold. Mesopotamian women donned veils in pub...

The FBI accused Helen Keller of being a member of the Communist Party. To buy a parking spot in downtown Manhattan, cut a cheque for USD$1 million. Archangel Gabriel is the patron saint of telecommunications. From Cape Breton to Vancouver Island the price for a loaf of bread was 6¢ —in 1914. The upper crust is the most snobbish of bread. Plutonium sells for $4,000 a gram. PEI leads the nation in recycling. Next-door neighbour, New Brunswick, ranks last. At £24 billion, the most expensive thing on Earth is the UK's Hinkley Nuclear Station. Mexicans prefer poultry to beef by a margin of two to one. Many tourists shun visits to Karl Marx’ grave because they believe it is a Communist plot. Porcupines float. Kitchener, Ontario is the birthplace of the world’s first Blue Box recycling program. In Sanskrit, ‘the desire for more cows’ translates into English as ‘war’.  Humans are the only earthly species capable of planning. The lazy cobbler wa...