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Oikophobes struggle with the irrational fear of home.  Thieves stole $1 million dollars from a Royal Bank branch in Windsor, ON today in 1971. The Danish alphabet contains three vowels more than English.  The fourth most common application of hot water is space heating.  Three stages of man: 1. Believes in Santa. 2. Doesn’t believe in Santa. 3. Is Santa.  Today in 1968, l’Université du Québec opened in Montréal, Trois-Rivières, Chicoutimi, Rimouski, Hull and Rouyn. Meaning now what it did then, the expression, “I’ll eat my hat”, entered the lexicon in 1797 . The recipe for crisps, a.k.a. potato chips, first appeared 20l years ago in a  British cookbook. A single zucchini plant produces an average of forty fruit per season.  Santa’s sleigh was free because it was on the house. A female halibut is larger than her male counterpart.  Independent from France, this is the 60th Republic Day, for 2.6 million Nigeriens. ...

Today in 1871, British Columbia joined Confederation as province number seven. There are six species of Pacific Salmon. Our moon is the fifth largest in the Solar System. From Manitoba with love, the cracked wheat, rye and flaxseed porridge,  Red River Cereal,  has fed millions since 1924. Noah was unable to fish during the the Flood because he had only two worms. There are 49 landlocked nations—two of which are double landlocked. On this date in 1969, men first walked on the moon. The Red River snakes for 880 kilometres from North Dakota-Minnesota to Lake Winnipeg. 350 people list their occupations as agrarian workers in Principality of Liechtenstein.  The first animal to orbit the Moon was the cow who jumped over it in AD 1569. Scorpions, mites, ticks and spiders are all arachnoids. Today in 2005,  the Governor General gave Royal Assent to same-sex marriages. Gorton’s introduced consumers to frozen, ready-to-cook fish sti...