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Celebrated since 1811, this is Independence Day in Venezuela. The majority of folk in New Brunswick are Roman Catholic. Instragram boasts more than 500 million users. Giraffes give birth standing up.  Priests who giggle while delivering homilies suffer from mass hysteria.  All RCMP horses bred and raised on a farm near Pakenham, Ontario.  The four genders in English are: masculine, feminine, common and neuter. Today in 1979, the Queen opened the 1,000th annual sitting of the Isle of Man's Parliament. Black pepper is a vine; its fruit is dried and ground to make spice. The proper way to address a royal giraffe is, Your High-ness.  According to StatsCan, 57% of us plant gardens every spring.  German bakers turn out more than 200+ varieties of bread. Today in 1866, our first car—a steam buggy—arrived on PEI; it was declared possessed. An adult giraffe will yield 300 kilos of intensely-flavoured lean meat.  Neve...

Volleyball was originally introduced as the game of ‘mintonette’. Today in 1489, Queen Catherine of Cyprus sold her kingdom to Venice. The hotter the object, the faster its molecules are moving. Toronto is a Mohawk word meaning ‘where trees stand in water’. Ducks awaken at the quack of dawn. The opposite of fear is trust. Swans and geese are members of the duck family.  With 15,000+ locations, Circle K is Earth’s second-largest convenience store chain. Ottawa slapped tariffs of 25% on all good imported from the US, today in 1879. Some people fear heights; others fear widths.  A culver is a keeper of doves. Concentric, congruent and tangent are the three types of circles. Instagram debuted in 2012. Canadawide, one can eat at any of 631 Subway Shops.  Mysterious forces tell birds when you’ve just washed your car. The first shipment of VW Beetles arrived in Canada--a dozen in all-- in the summer of 1952. Wiffle ball w...