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The Pied Piper leads the parade; this is Rat Catcher’s Day in Hamelin, Germany. Bread exposed to radiant heat for a period of time is called toast.  Cheers! Salut! Drink up! This is National Dairy Month.  The Canadian Coast Guard is under the purview of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Doctors and nurses at the Mayo Clinic do their best to care for wounded sandwiches. Today in 1959, the Queen and US President Eisenhower opened the St. Lawrence Seaway.  33.3% of Australians were born outside of the country. Mercury was the Roman god of thieves and tricksters.  Christmas became a legal holiday in the United States 149 years ago. A day on Mercury lasts about 1,408 hours, or about the same as an Earth Monday.  Buckwheat, rice, quinoa, sorghum and oats are gluten-free whole grains.  The £1.22 million attack submarine HMS Artful can stay submerged for 25 years. Today in 1990, Justice Minister Kim Campbell ta...

On this date in 1850, California was admitted to the Union as the 31st of the United States. The biggest diamond producers are: Botswana; Russia and Canada. As much as 20% of all hydro outages in the USA are caused by squirrels. While researching a cure for AIDS, scientists at the Mayo Clinic accidentally created glow-in-the-dark cats. Owners who do not spay or neuter their cats may be charged with kitty littering. Brontophobes suffer from the irrational fear of thunder. 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine. A horse has 205 bones. New Zealand’s Prime Minister appoints an Official Wizard. Cats keep law and order through claw enforcement.  Facebook was launched in 2004. Bricks turn grey in colour when fired at a temperature of 1 300°C. Time for a picnic! Today is National Teddy Bear Day. Prince Hans-Adam of Leichtenstein is Europe’s wealthiest reigning monarch. Polar bears that migrate to Florida quickly become solar b...