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Today in 1870, Manitoba entered Confederation as our fifth province. To dream about mustard is a promise of wealth, success and happiness. William Clement built the first grandfather clock in 1670. Single-cell, multi-cell cluster, multi-cell lines and supercells: the four types of thunderstorms. Grandfather clocks are old timers.  There are 12 Disney resorts.  The human foot has three arches. Manitoba means 'the great spirit speaks', in Cree. Coconut milk can be whipped into cream.  Snow White treats the Seven Dwarfs equally because she's the fairest of them all.  The Panama Canal is 82 kilometres long. The word dinosaur comes from Greek; it means 'terrible lizard'. Ottawa is home to 14 national museums and hosts 35 festivals each year.  No bridges cross the Amazon River. My neighbour thought he found a dinosaur but it was a fossil arm. Today in 2013, Loblaws announced it would buy Shoppers Drug Mart. Wales is comprised ...

Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo: Old MacDonald began farming in 1719. Made in Belleville, Ontario, we’ve been crunching on Hawkins Cheezies for 70 years. We scream when the brain’s fear processing centre is accessed. Numbering 5,000+ in days of yore, today there are still more than 100 castles in Japan. Humour about junk food contains zero calories. Curry powder is the most popular spice mix in the world. Mickey Mouse has only four fingers. Animal, plant and synthetic are the three types of thread.  Today in 1763, France signed the Treaty of Paris, ceding Canada to Great Britain. A woman who sews for a living is a seamstress. A man who sews as a living is a seamster. The Guamanian national tree is the coconut.  In the 1840s, limericks became a popular form of advertising. Circles have insides and outsides.   6.3 million South Africans have 130 heart attacks and 240 strokes every day. Attention Canadians! It is not ...

There are four types of Japanese tea ceremonies. Invented 60 years ago, Pong was the world's first video game. Today in 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the XI Olympiad in Berlin.  A heat wave must consist of three consecutive days where the mercury rises to 32°C. They used to time me with a stopwatch, now they use a calendar. On this date in 1944, Smokey the Bear began his appointed task of preventing forest fires. The Snowcastle of Kemi, Finland- is the world’s largest ice hotel-includes an eatery and a wedding chapel. My housekeeper is only second best—she just walked off with the silver.  Shopper’s Drug Mart, a.k.a. Pharmaprix, operates 1,307 stores in nine provinces and two territories. One fruit contains the elemental combination of barium and double sodium, the BaNaNa. Ford manufactures vehicles and components in 23  countries. An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki today, in 1945. 238 years ago, Farmer Brown named...