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Today in 1871 a hurricane swept up the coast of Labrador, killing  300 people. German companies lose €50 billion and 30,000 jobs a year thanks to industrial spies. The dome on Thomas Jefferson’s home contains a secret billiard room—illegal in Virginia. Friends are valuable, sometimes enemies more so. It’s called the Secret Service, yet everyone knows about it.  Today in 1998 the NWT was divided and Nunavut created. The silent ‘K’ in knife is a diacritic that changes the pronunciation of another syllable. Corn flakes are high in iron, B vitamins thiamin and niacin. Namibia is the driest country in Sub-Saharan Africa. It may be time to diet, if your cereal comes with a lifeguard. Sarah Bernhard introduced the fedora as women's fashion, in 1882 .  Earthlings consume five billion pizzas per annum. Today in 1886, a fire destroyed much of Vancouver. Rolex is the world’s 71st most valuable brand.  Life is complex; so many ...

Today is Flag Day, observed by the 104,822 citizens of the Sovereign Nation of Aruba. State-owned Pemex operates 10,830 gasoline stations in Mexico.  The only province with no natural borders,10% of Saskatchewan is lakes and rivers.  There are more than 200 synonyms for the word ‘anger’.  When it’s -27°C, it’s time to head to Oranjestad for some vitamin sea.  Delta pilots take off from the tarmac more than 5,400 times a day.  Twenty quires make one ream of paper.  Today in 1918, Ottawa legalized daylight savings time, to boost production of war materiel. The boiling point of uranium is 4,131°C.  It is ironic that are days are numbered, not lettered. Yemen has no rivers.  An Apple iPhone uses 30¢ of hydro a year, if fully charged on a daily basis. Today in 1965, Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first Earthling to walk in space. Larger in size than PEI, the population of Antcosti Island numbers ...

Macintosh is Canada’s favourite eating and cooking apple.  Seagulls mate for life. The fine for not wearing a seatbelt in the Republic of South Africa is ZAR 250. Sugar is addictive and withdrawal is difficult.  Since 1791, Mozart has been decomposing.  On 07 February, 2009, The Black Saturday Bushfires killed 180, injured 440 and destroyed 45 000 hectares of land, at a cost of AUD$4.4 billion. The cities of Toronto and Moscow are located within the taiga biome.  When ordering French dressing in Paris, ask for vinaigrette. Scientists found a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary; they have named it Thesaurus.  Unloved, unwanted and more than 100,000 strong, Toronto is Earth’s Raccoon Capital. An score of 132 will get one a membership in MENSA, the high IQ society.  Little girls have been made of ‘sugar and spice and everything nice’ for two centuries. Bolivia produces more Brazil nuts than Brazil.  The one-...