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Today in 1970, Ian Smith cut ties with Britain and declared Rhodesia to be a republic. The doughnut making machine was invented by Adolph Levitt in 1920. $450,000 is the average price of a mobile home in Yellowknife. The first text message was sent in 1992. My neighbour was so poor as a kid he didn’t build sand castles he built sand mobile homes. 250 millilitres of coconut milk contains 560 calories. The No. 1 magazine is The Watchtower: 40 million a month are printed in 180 languages, distributed in in 236 countries. The supersonic Concorde airliner successfully completed its maiden flight today, in 1969. Michelangelo was a poet, more than 300 of his poems have been preserved. The highest honour a cowboy poet can receive is Poet Lariat.  The Dutch spent €1.2 billion last year to buy a million bicycles. The name Bernard means bold bear. India adopted the Rupee as its official currency in 1818.  The city of Montréal budgets $163.3 m...

The machine that preps wood fibres for papermaking is called the Hollander beater. The most littered plastic item on Earth is the plastic filter found in cigarette butts.  Half a million of us are Snowbirds.  The cedar tree is an evergreen.  Don’t litter: It’s called a garbage can—not a garbage cannot.  British Columbia is home to 16 universities—five are private.  Chickadees hide food for wintertime meals; they remember where each seed was cached. 95% of textiles are recyclable. Somewhere on the globe,GM dealers sell a Chev every 8.33 seconds.  The world’s worst thesaurus is not only awful, it’s awful. The blade, the guard, the hilt and the pommel are the four parts of sword. Doteri guksu  is a Korean noodle made from ground acorns.  The Jolly Green Giant turns 93 this year.  In the 1930s, the coin-operated typewriter was invented in Sweden. I’m sorry but apologies are really Canadian conversatio...

Today in 1775, King George III addressed Parliament to declare the American Colonies in rebellion. There are six days until Hallowe’en. The blindness caused by pepper spray lasts from 15 to 30 minutes. Every winter some 4.9 million tonnes of salt is spread on our roads, from St. John’s to Victoria. Any pumpkin weighing 50 kilos or more is called a pumpkin. Covered by Britian’s health scheme, the cost of a root canal is £59.10. Fewer than 1% of Earth’s population are hechtochromites—have two differently-coloured eyes. The word ‘percent’ comes from the Latin per centum, meaning ‘by the hundred’.   When animals die, veterinarians often perform necropsies.  Witches who live together are broommates. Electrophobes suffer from an irrational fear of electricity.  Polka dot fabric was given its name in 1857. After skin, the liver is the second largest organ in the human body. In 2017, 70 teams from 11 countries took part in th...