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The Jeep was designed in 1940, to replace the US Army's aging fleet of Model T Fords. Last year 6,609 people were detained while waiting for Canadian immigration papers. Aloe vera is also known as 'the lily of the desert'. After eight years of war, France signed a peace deal and agreed to leave Vietnam. Cheapskate: Someone with short arms and long pockets. The highest grades of Moroccan leather are goatskin.  24% of us have gone camping within the past twelve months.  Water divination was the first use of the directional compass. Today in 1667, Acadia returned to France and St. Christopher's Island, WI to England. Found an old Land Rover while camping. It was a nice Discovery.  An Intex Challenger K2 kayak costs $149.32 at Canadian Tire. Médicins sans Frontières /Doctors without Borders, was founded 48 years ago. The recommended thickness for ceiling plaster is eight millimetres. The nation's third TV Network, Global, went on the air to...

Today in 1991, StatsCan reported that 10.2% of us were on pogey and looking for work. Cows that graze on lespedeza give considerably less milk.  Gallup conducts polls in 160 nations—98% of the world’s population. Invented in France, the first bicycle rolled out the door in 1791. I have some puns about unemployment but none of them work.  28% of us play keyboard instruments, the nation’s most popular. A strawberry typically has around 200 seeds. Frozen carbon dioxide, a.k.a. dry ice, can’t melt.  Today in 1913, Albania became a sovereign nation.  Prodigy: A child who plays piano when he ought to be in bed. We address the mayor as Your Worship to show honour to our duly-elected First Citizen. Ground clearance on a WWII Jeep is 222.25 millimetres. Composed of densely packed hexagonal prismatic cells, bees live in honeycombs. Today in 1975, the European Space Agency was established. Bees designated to protect the queen of...

Boxers are the eighth most common breed of dog in the USA. 2.5 billion people were glued to their TV sets today in 1997, to watch the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. The Last Supper was eaten on Thursday. The lyre is a member of the zither family.  Everyone has a photographic memory—some simply lack film. Elections in the UK always take place on Thursday. Leonardo da Vinci was an accomplished lyrist. More than 500,000 Jeeps were built from 1941 to 1945, at a cost of USD$738.34 each. The State of Nevada boasts 334 casinos. I autographed books at the Windsor Public Library—now I'm banned for life.  The Ambassador Bridge, connecting Windsor, ON and Detroit, MI, is the largest border crossing between our two countries. Glitter has been used as a weapon of war.  The US Congress awarded a Purple Heart to a Jeep that fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal.  In 1975, the first digital camera arrived on the market.  Ridin...