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This is World Population Day for 7.53 billion-plus Earthlings. Toronto hired its first urban planning commissioner in 1914. Rules for the new sport, croquet, were registered in 156 years ago.  Conspiracy theories are a matter of faith, not truth, and correlate highly with paranoia. I want to live in a world where people have 'on' and 'off' buttons.  Someone who plays the lute is called a luthier.  Australian football rules require 18 players per team. Humans make food from 2,000 varieties of plant life. Today in 1990, QPP Constable Marcel Lemay died in a gun battle during the Oka Crisis. UN stats show that all humans who contract the habit of eating, die. Actress Brett Somers was born on this date in Saint John, New Brunswick. Archery is the national sport in Bhutan. Eating too many makes one sleepy; onions contains a natural sedative. Today in 1906, Senators passed the Lord's Day Act. It will be ruled unconstitutional in 1985....

There are six kinds of warts.  Newborn baby porcupines are called porcupettes.  After 109 years of French rule, the Union of Comoros gained independence today, in 1975. By far the largest group, more than 93,000 Canadians live illegally in the United States.  Scientists have crossed a pig with a cactus; the result is a porky-pine.  The average lifespan of a major league baseball in a game is five to seven pitches.  Little Red Riding Hood was first recorded as going to Grandmother’s house 322 years ago.  Police, fire or ambulance, in México, the emergency number is 065. Today in 1906, the Lord’s Day Act banned work, sports and business on Sundays. Those who respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.  Cut tinfoil with scissors to sharpen them.  Currency represents value but does not hold value.  Today in 2013 a train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, QC, killing 47 people. Th...

A hockey puck must weigh between 156 to 170 grams. No time like the present, there are 227 days until Christmas. Banana ketchup first appeared on Filipino dinner tables in 1942. Tinkle the ivories of the world’s most expensive concert grand piano for €255,411. It is impossible to play hockey with swine because they hog the puck.  Mahogany is the national tree of the Dominican Republic and Belize. The Ohio River flows through—or borders—six of the fifty United States. Bet you can’t eat just one! Potato chips stimulate 27 pleasure centres in the brain.  On this date in 1949, Siam formally became The Kingdom of Thailand. The older you get, the better you get—unless you are a banana.  The correct term for a single zucchini is ‘zucchina’. China, Denmark, Hong Kong and Finland rank as the top exporters of fur apparel.  Last year, 370,088 passengers flew in and out of the Charlottetown airport.  Bella, Charlie and Max top the...