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Today in 1948, William Lyon Mackenzie-King retired after a record of 21 years as PM. People who suffer from the rare disease of hypopituitarism are unable to feel love. French, string and snap are different names for the green bean. Turtles do not get lonely and never need friends. Runner beans don’t actually run.  There are 41 days until Christmas. When life gives you cabbage, make sauerkraut.  René Lévesque led the Parti Québecois to victory tonight, in 1976, with a mandate to separate from Canada. The Fraser fir is the most popular Yuletide tree in the United States. Eating Christmas tree trimmings will give one tinselitis.  Around the globe, there are 85 bodies of water that are defined as seas. Weighing at two grams, the bumblebee bat is world’s tiniest mammal. SCUBA is an acronym for Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.  There are exactly 10, 852,383 castles on Earth. My neighbour got new scuba gear for ...

Every day, Chrysler Canada workers build 1,426  minivans at Windsor Assembly. The most common surname in Turkey is Yulmaz. Today in 1994, Kim Jong-Il became Supreme Leader of North Korea. The word ‘weirdo’ entered the lexicon in 1955. I bought a Toyota. I turned on the radio, and couldn’t understand a word they were saying. This is Air Force and Air Defence Forces Day in the Ukraine.  Onions are toxic to guinea pigs. It is estimated that there are 378,000 service dogs in the United States. Cancer claimed the lives of 30% of all Canadians who died in 2017. Acrophiles love heights. Acromaniacs are obsessed with heights. Acrophobes move to Saskatchewan.  With its 175 rooms, Rideau Hall has been home to every Governor General since 1867. Nixtamalization is the process by which corn is transformed into hominy. Prince Edward Island has seven hospitals. Half a million Dutch speak Frisian as their mother tongue. Folk in Saskatchewa...