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Today marks World Press Freedom Day. Michelin has developed a tire that can never go flat. According to StatsCan, 4.9 million of us have no religion.  'Five-o’clock shadow’ comes from men being required to shave before five-o’clock tea.  I wanted to place a flat tire pun here but there’s too much pressure.  84% of Americans believe the Earth is round. The thread count in a high quality suit should be 120.  Prince Edward Island women won the right to vote today, in 1922. The juice of the bluebell flower was historically used to make glue. Never buy a single vote more than necessary. ~Joseph P. Kennedy The highest grossing movie of all time is the 1939 release, Gone with the Wind. From 1956 to its closure in 2018, the factory in Montréal baked a billion Oreos annually. Plus and minus are Latin for ‘more’ and ‘less’. Ireland was partitioned on this date in 1921. My neighbour is not a big fan of wind energy.  The...

Today in 1894 the first Stanley Cup playoff series began. Invented in China, chopsticks have been in use for more than 2,000 years. Phonophobes struggle with the irrational fear of noise. Holiday Inn rents more than 214,000 bedrooms around the globe. Chopsticks are the reason that custard was not invented by the Chinese. Ranking first, 96.4% of Romanians own their own homes; Switzerland is 50th with 43.4%. The piano is both a string and percussion instrument. Eight languages are spoken by First Nation People in the Yukon. The name Arlo is of Spanish origin; it means barberry tree’. Slang: Language that takes off its coat, rolls up its sleeves and gets to work.  Metrophiles love poetry.  Kindergarten is mandatory in Nova Scotia, BC and PEI. The giraffe is the largest ruminant. Barbecue, hurricane and squash are all borrowed from Indigenous American languages. Geology may rock but Geography is really where it’s at. Smokey t...

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...