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Today is National Day in Kuwait. Goldilocks and the Three Bears can thank the ancient Greeks for inventing porridge. 170,000 spectators can be seated in Churchill Downs. An electrician in Windsor, Ontario earns an average of $28 an hour.   My neighbour bet on a horse at 10-to1 but it didn’t come in until half-past five.  The Fiat-Chrysler manufacturing complex in Windsor is Canada’s largest factory. The largest constellation in the northern hemisphere is Ursa Major.  Orthorexics are obsessed with healthy food diets.  From Cochrane to Hudson Bay, the Polar Express stretches 300 kilometres. The cobbler gave spared no time or expense in teaching his apprentice—he gave his awl.  Teaberries are members of the heath family. On this date in 1880, fire razed the Parliament Buildings in Fredericton.  Identical twins do not share common fingerprints.  Hiram R. Revels was sworn into the US Senate today in 1870—the...

There are 185 days until Christmas. Baseball caps were initially marketed as Brooklyn hats.  Montréalers can hail any of the city’s 4,445 taxis.  Today in 1961, the British Colony of Kuwait gained independence. To make money by driving people away, become a cab driver. Cullet is the industry’s term for recycled glass.  Mack Truck delivered its first motorized vehicle—a sightseeing bus—in 1900. It stands alone. A 26-tonne ‘Chubby Cheddar’ was made in 1955, in Granby, Québec. Experienced glassblowers are bestowed the title of Gaffer. Strict vegans refuse to be photographed for fear they might have to say 'Cheese'.  Ontario’s Ministry of Transport simplified traffic with white lines painted on roads in 1930. By 1933 lines had spread continent-wide.  The canon is a simple combustion engine.  Tunisia ranks Number Two in the export of human hair. People don't start wars--governments do. The phrase ‘old hat’ first en...