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28 August 2019

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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...

06 June 2019

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Mongolians fête the 1000 Camel Festival with beauty contests and races for their rides. For 59 years the Grey Panthers have combatted ageism and other social justice issues. Today in 1944, Allied troops stormed Nazi-held France on the coast of Normandy. Staring at stripes increases gamma oscillations, they can trigger headaches or seizures. The aging process would be slowed greatly if it had to work its way through Parliament.  The consistency of tofu is very similar to the human brain. Our first PM, Sir John A. Macdonald, died at home, age 76, on this date in 1891. Black panthers in Africa and Asia are leopards. In the Americas, they are jaguars.  Given a government with a big surplus, a big majority and a weak opposition, you could debauch a committee of angels. ~Sir John A. Macdonald. Canada ranks 17th  for the lowest world international tariffs.  North Koreans miscreants are punished, as is the family for the next ...