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The Government of France owns 15% of Renault.  250 millilitres of white, long-grain rice contains 205 calories. From St. John’s to Victoria, cannabis is legal as of today.  There are more Indian restaurants in London than in Mumbai and Delhi combined.  Folks who enjoy bowling say it’s right up their alley.  Today in 1956, Queen Elizabeth II opened the world’s first commercial nuclear power plant. The Roman numeral system consists of seven symbols: I, V, X, L, C, D and M. From Windsor, ON to the Québec border, the 401 is North America’s busiest highway. Brazil has more than 240,000 dentists—the most on the planet.  A collective of fingerprints is called a whorl pool. Québec’s Minister of Labour, Pierre Laporte, was murdered by the FLQ today in 1970. The good citizens of Christchurch are called Cantabrians.  Earth's biggest labour union is the US National Education Ass'n, with 2.7 million members. Today in 1980, Joh...

Save the date, there are 80 days until Christmas. IBM’s Selectric Typewriter is 57 years old.  Mice are nocturnal by nature. Plastic glitter began to sparkle in 1934. Throwing acid is wrong, in some people’s eyes. A ten-year passport costs $160.  The corn muffin is the official quickbread in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Spelling is the combination of alphabetic symbols that form a written, word. Today in 1793, Christianity was ‘disestablished’ in France. British dog catchers are paid by the pound. We have been eating jelly beans for 157 years.  Renault is the third most popular automobile in the European market.  Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space on this date in 1984.  In AD 1457, King James II banned golf.  The name Karl Marx must be written in lower case letters because he hated capitalism. Time marches on, at the rate of 31,556,926 seconds a year. Jerusalem artichokes make an excel...