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There are four days until spring.  Sesame Street was nearly named the Two and Two Ain’t Five Show. Today in 1967 the Québec sales tax went from 6% to 8%—the highest in the nation.  One out of every three tourists to Cuba are Canadian.  It is bad manners to postpone a holiday. The epicentre of all romance novels and religions is the emotion of desire.  A night in the Royal Suite at the Fairmont Chateau in Lake Louise is $1,449 plus tax. It was in 1546 that ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ first appeared in a book of proverbs. St. Uhro is the patron saint of Finland. Today he is celebrated by Finns. My neighbour's hotel room was  so posh-- towels so thick--he couldn't shut his valise. The boiling point of gold is 2 700°C. Today in 1968 General Motors produced its 100 millionth car, an Oldsmobile Toronado. The name David is biblical, meaning ‘beloved’ in Hebrew. Vehophobics struggle with the irrational fear of driving a vehicl...

Second only to China, India has more than 300 million SmartPhone users. Today in 1930, the British Empire (now Commonwealth) Games opened in Hamilton, Ontario. Every watermelon has an even number of stripes. Marco Polo dictated his travel memoirs to a romance novelist while both were prisoners. That unlimited cellphone plan—there’s no limit as to how much they can charge me. Buddhism was the first large-scale missionary movement in the history of world religions. 600,000 Solomon Islanders can tune in to the state broadcaster and two commercial FM radio stations. Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo were close friends. The Danish monarchy is more than 1,000 years old. Royal chairs are never throne out. Workers in Samsung’s six factories churn out two smartphones every second. Today in 1934, The United States military pulled out of Haiti after occupying the country for 19 years. Bach composed 1,128 pieces of music in his 65 years. The Belgian Congo was g...