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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...

Any land mass rising more than 300 metres above the surrounding area is officially a mountain.   The Moosehead Brewery in Saint John, NB turns out 1,642 bottles of suds every minute.  Once planted, cantaloupes bear fruit in 90 days.  Today in 1922, the BBC went on the air for the very first time. When climbing a mountain, never look up--unless you have the number of a plastic surgeon handy.  The element mercury melts at -38.83°C. We have more doughnut shops per capita than any other country on Earth. Finnish and Polish banking institutions  no longer offer chequing accounts.  Spain officially abandoned its claims to the Western Sahara, today in 1975.  Doughnuts: Eat more hole foods.  Say ‘good-bye’; CP Rail shed the caboose today in 1989; CN followed suit two months later. Canada’s smallest provincial capital is Iqaluit, population 7,250—and yes—it has three Tim Horton’s. Mercury is the fastest moving...