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Swedes customarily serve pizza coleslaw. This is International Milk Day. Greenland and Britain share a time zone. Old King Cole has been a merry old soul since 1708. Strip-mining coal prevents forest fires.  Pearl is the official birthstone of June.  In 1965, Nissan opened in Vancouver with six workers and promptly signed up 84 dealers. Vocal cords are actually folds of skin.  After nearly 90 years, today in 1979, white minority rule in Rhodesia ended. Bumper sticker: Please honk if anything else falls off my Datsun.  The higher the altitude, the greater one’s sleep disruption.  Catholic schools are publicly funded in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. The essential feature of worsted wool is it long, straight parallel fibres. Today in 1968, 87-year old Helen Keller died in her sleep. A sleeping bag makes the perfect nap sack. Today in 1942, Ottawa instituted sugar rationing—250 millilitres per adult, per week...

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...