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Today in 1908, the first dial telephone system was installed in Calgary. The top hat was invented by George Dunnage in England. The year was 1793. 8% of people around the world suffer from zoophobia, the irrational fear of animals. The Supreme Court’s nine justices represent our four major regions. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. ~Frederick the Great Today in 1932, 10,000 seized the Colonial Building in St. John’s, to protest corruption in the Dominion of Newfoundland. The surname Spooner is derived from the occupation of making wooden roof shingles. The term for an elderly horse is a nag.  Smuggling was so prevalent in 1275 that Edward I created English Customs to tax imports. The Canadian Revenue Agency must love the poor—it makes so many of them. Since opening day in 1955, Disneyland has played host to more than 600 million visitors. IBM has been awarded five Nobel Prizes. The Vietnam War is called the American War in Vie...

Folks who experience mogigraphia have writer’s cramp. Today in 1961, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the youngest president of the Unite States. A starfruit contains 4% sugar.  Five of our nine Supreme Court Justices are women. No one alive right now has ever died.  As observed throughout North America, January is National Porridge Month.  850,000 low-income Canadians turn to food banks every month.  We blink between 15 to 20 times a minute.  Edward VIII began his reign over the United Kingdom, its Commonwealths and Realms.  My neighbour stole food while sitting on the shoulders of two vampires. He was charged with shoplifting on two counts. Turtles see a colour that humans can not fathom. As a rule of thumb, the smaller the pepper, the hotter.  1.2 million barrels of kerosene are consumed around the world daily.  The most common surname in El Salvador is Hernández. It’s ironic that the man who inv...

Cows do not get seasick. In Shenzhen, China, DJI Innovations manufactures 70% of all civilian drones.  A serving of peas contains more fibre than a slice of whole wheat bread. The DVD first bowed in 1995.  Bikers wear leather because chiffon wrinkles far too easily.  The Dutch Royal House does not have a crown. Kids in Australia and France do not celebrate Hallowe’en.  More species of fish are found in the Arctic Ocean than anywhere else in the world. Queen Victoria’s wedding cake weighed 136 kilos.  When pigs lose their voices, they become disgruntled.  In 2014, there were 40,920 women lawyers and 54,153 men lawyers in Canada. The German city of Nuremberg is the Gingerbread Capital of the World.  Bunnies have been bringing Easter eggs to children since 1682. Some 500,000 people and a million animals were slaughtered in Rome’s Coliseum. Remember, traffic lights timed for 35 k/ph are also timed for 110 k/ph....