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The Vancouver Sun reports that 86,000 of us live with spinal cord injuries. Those who read crystal balls are called scryers.  Today in 1987, Rick Hansen ended his Man in Motion tour--40 000 km in 34 countries.  The length of airways in the two lungs is 2 400 kilometres. Fortune tellers look forward to dancing at the annual crystal ball.  The population of Spain is 46,659, 302. The surname Nash is topographic, derived from living near an ash tree. Ventriloquism was originally a religious practice.  The NHL awarded a franchise to the Vancouver Canucks today in 1970. King Carlos I was homely, proof that the reign in Spain falls mainly to the plain.   The Time Out Chair—as behavioural modification—was introduced in 1958. Wasabi root is 11% fat and 46% carbs. Indian mathematicians defined zero in AD 628. Today in 1820, Lord Dalhousie laid the cornerstone of Dalhousie University.  The number zero was invented to co...

There are 185 days until Christmas. Baseball caps were initially marketed as Brooklyn hats.  Montréalers can hail any of the city’s 4,445 taxis.  Today in 1961, the British Colony of Kuwait gained independence. To make money by driving people away, become a cab driver. Cullet is the industry’s term for recycled glass.  Mack Truck delivered its first motorized vehicle—a sightseeing bus—in 1900. It stands alone. A 26-tonne ‘Chubby Cheddar’ was made in 1955, in Granby, Québec. Experienced glassblowers are bestowed the title of Gaffer. Strict vegans refuse to be photographed for fear they might have to say 'Cheese'.  Ontario’s Ministry of Transport simplified traffic with white lines painted on roads in 1930. By 1933 lines had spread continent-wide.  The canon is a simple combustion engine.  Tunisia ranks Number Two in the export of human hair. People don't start wars--governments do. The phrase ‘old hat’ first en...