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Today in 1894 the first Stanley Cup playoff series began. Invented in China, chopsticks have been in use for more than 2,000 years. Phonophobes struggle with the irrational fear of noise. Holiday Inn rents more than 214,000 bedrooms around the globe. Chopsticks are the reason that custard was not invented by the Chinese. Ranking first, 96.4% of Romanians own their own homes; Switzerland is 50th with 43.4%. The piano is both a string and percussion instrument. Eight languages are spoken by First Nation People in the Yukon. The name Arlo is of Spanish origin; it means barberry tree’. Slang: Language that takes off its coat, rolls up its sleeves and gets to work.  Metrophiles love poetry.  Kindergarten is mandatory in Nova Scotia, BC and PEI. The giraffe is the largest ruminant. Barbecue, hurricane and squash are all borrowed from Indigenous American languages. Geology may rock but Geography is really where it’s at. Smokey t...

Today is Teachers’ Day in Albania.  250 mls of almond milk has 40 calories, soy milk 80 calories and rice milk 120 calories. The letter, G, started work circa 230 BCE, to distinguish between the ‘g’ and ‘k’ sounds. According to StatsCan, one out of every seven Canadians live below the poverty line.  A rich man is nothing more than a poor man with money.  The circular saw was invented in 1780. Of the 69.7 million credit cards in circulation, the RCMP report that 541,580 were stolen.  Nunavut has 8,900 vehicles; 5,500 of which are on the streets of Iqaluit. On this date in 1969, Golda Meir was elected PM of Israel.  Sammi herders carry umbrellas because of the rain, dear. Xenophobics struggle with the irrational fear of space aliens.  The last Russian Gulag was closed in 1987.  4M Americans have been abducted by space aliens; 40K have abduction insurance. The Toronto Stock Exchange was incorporated today in 187...