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Elmer the Safety Elephant is 72 years old. The complete nursery rhyme,  Jack and Jill has 15 stanzas. A female opossum has 13 nipples. Today in 1833, slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire. An elephant was ticketed for running through a stomp sign.  Table tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988. 13% of the world's oats are grown in Canada. Today in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his I Have a Dream speech to 200,000 people. Dr. Ruth was a sniper in the Israeli Army.  Horses can be trained to play stable tennis.  For every multiplication answer, there are two division equations.  The whooper swan is the National Bird of Finland. The Snickers chocolate bar was named after a horse. 43,500 educators are members of the Alberta Teachers' Association. My next-door neighbour's horse only comes out at midnight, it's a nightmare. No need to wait for Armageddon, Norwegians can go to Hell anytime. The lette...

Belgian priest Father Georges Lemaître postulated The Big Bang Theory in 1927. It was a black day in July-the Detroit Riot-began today in 1967. 43 died, 342 injured 1,400 buildings burnt. Trans-Canada Air began flights to the UK, carrying mail and military personnel, on this date in 1943. As a child, Narendra Modi, India’s 14th Prime Minister, helped his father sell tea. The first satellite to orbit Earth was the moon. More than 13,500 Canadians have served in Afghanistan since 2002--lest we forget. There are 20 fields of veterinary dentistry.  Jack and Jill first went up the hill in the 1760s. Americans fill prescriptions at any of 67,000 pharmacies. Panamanians identify dental care as a ‘route canal’.  Today in 1974, the Bank of Canada hiked the lending rate to 9.4%. Forbes  fingers Xi, Putin, Trump and Merkel as Earth's most powerful people. Germany and France are the world’s leading producers of biodiesel.  Louis XV g...