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33 countries’ names do not include the letter ‘A’. The strongest muscle is the masseter; it can chomp with a force of 100 kilos on your molars. Children must stay in school until they are 18, in Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick.  Queen Elizabeth II keeps a rubber duckie in her bathtub; it wears an inflatable crown.  We all learn by experience but some of us have to attend summer school. It was 19 years ago that the Plymouth brand of automobile went to automobile heaven. Concentrate: a rebus puzzle contains pictures, letters, words and numbers connected by +.  There have only been eleven Duchesses of York. Every winter, some 5 million tonnes of salt cover the nation’s highways and byways. Snowmen’s preferred form of transportation is the icicle.  The tongue is the only muscle attached at one end.  Vehicles’ taillights are red because it is the colour of blood and represents danger. Polar Bear Provincial Park is visited...

Today in 1497, John Cabot landed in Bonavista, and claimed the New Founde Land for Britain.  No one’s telling, but there may be as many as 1,000 Chinese spies lurking in Canada.  At 23%, Canada and the United States have the lowest rate of domestic violence. In 190 days we will ring in 2019. 7.2 million Francophones celebrate la Féte-de-la-Saint-Jean Baptiste today, a statutory holiday in Québec. Cremation is a person’s last chance for a smokin’ hot body. Bulrushes, a.k.a. cattails, number thirty in variety.  410 years ago today, Samuel de Champlain sailed into the St. John River, site of Saint John, NB. Cremation is forbidden in Islam.  O Canada was performed for the first time on this date in 1880. Unsavoury citrus risk being beaten to a pulp. Canadians buy 40.4 billion litres of gas, annually. Globally, one out of every eleven adults suffer from diabetes. The harpsichord first appeared in 1397. The lifespan of an alm...