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Celebrated since 1811, this is Independence Day in Venezuela. The majority of folk in New Brunswick are Roman Catholic. Instragram boasts more than 500 million users. Giraffes give birth standing up.  Priests who giggle while delivering homilies suffer from mass hysteria.  All RCMP horses bred and raised on a farm near Pakenham, Ontario.  The four genders in English are: masculine, feminine, common and neuter. Today in 1979, the Queen opened the 1,000th annual sitting of the Isle of Man's Parliament. Black pepper is a vine; its fruit is dried and ground to make spice. The proper way to address a royal giraffe is, Your High-ness.  According to StatsCan, 57% of us plant gardens every spring.  German bakers turn out more than 200+ varieties of bread. Today in 1866, our first car—a steam buggy—arrived on PEI; it was declared possessed. An adult giraffe will yield 300 kilos of intensely-flavoured lean meat.  Neve...

Today in 1951, the Royal Canadian Army entered combat in the Korean Conflict. 4.8 million people live in Liberia. There are an estimated 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. Figs were so highly desirable that Marco Polo compared beautiful women to them. Mars must be colonized. If we don’t do it, squirrels will.  On this date in 1952, King George VI died in his sleep at the age of 56. It costs $170 for enough helium to blow up 500 balloons in Oshawa and Durham Region. Mozzarella was traditionally made from buffalo milk.  759 million people cannot read or write.  My next-door neighbour is addicted to Cheddar; he says it’s mild, though. The Japanese, Americans and French buy the most comic books.  Hoi polloi is a derogatory Greek expression meaning the common people. A human hand has 27 bones and an adult male’s hand weighs 500 grams. Currently there are 4,770 practising psychiatrists from Vancouver Island to Newfoundla...