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The Pied Piper leads the parade; this is Rat Catcher’s Day in Hamelin, Germany. Bread exposed to radiant heat for a period of time is called toast.  Cheers! Salut! Drink up! This is National Dairy Month.  The Canadian Coast Guard is under the purview of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Doctors and nurses at the Mayo Clinic do their best to care for wounded sandwiches. Today in 1959, the Queen and US President Eisenhower opened the St. Lawrence Seaway.  33.3% of Australians were born outside of the country. Mercury was the Roman god of thieves and tricksters.  Christmas became a legal holiday in the United States 149 years ago. A day on Mercury lasts about 1,408 hours, or about the same as an Earth Monday.  Buckwheat, rice, quinoa, sorghum and oats are gluten-free whole grains.  The £1.22 million attack submarine HMS Artful can stay submerged for 25 years. Today in 1990, Justice Minister Kim Campbell ta...

Today is Independence Day in Tonga, a British Protectorate from 1900 to 1970. Acorns are toxic to dogs and horses. Since there are no contradictions, adherents of Shinto often practise Buddhism, as well. Vegans shun avocados--farmers truck bees from orchard to orchard-- as pollination slaves. The tofu crossed the road to prove he wasn’t chicken. Today in 1792, Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Great Britain. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,’ uses all 26 alphabet letters--a pangram.  Turks and the Irish are the world’s largest consumers of tea.  Queen Elizabeth II owns Stonehenge. Newbies to the tea culture encounter a steep learning curve. Aztecs raised Chihuahuas for their meat. Salt is electrically neutral.  3.7% of PE Islanders live on farms. Today in 1989, the Chinese Army quashed protesters in Tiananmen Square; 241 killed. When elephants want a light snack, they eat candles. Hands dow...