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Toronto means 'meeting place' in the Iroquois language. Paneer is cottage cheese.  Chromophobes struggle with the irrational fear of colours. Containing 55% sugar, the fig is the sweetest of all fruit. Meetings are where minutes are kept and hours lost. Oxygen was identified as an element in 1773.  The Sahara Desert blankets 31% of Africa. The name Marlene is a portmanteau of Maria and Magdelene. Anxious Canadians began popping Valium in 1963. Asthmatics suck at breathing. The term 'senior citizen' was coined in 1937. A Swedish Krona equals 14¢ Canadian. More than 3,300 islands dot the Mediterranean Sea. Winches and capstans are machines designed to pull ropes. My neighbour is so old that when he was born, the Dead Sea was just sick. Cats have no collarbones. Jews, Christians and Muslims share a belief in angels. Pink is a palliative colour.  8.2 million of us have dogs as pets. Spelling bees are smarter than talking cats. F...

Volleyball was originally introduced as the game of ‘mintonette’. Today in 1489, Queen Catherine of Cyprus sold her kingdom to Venice. The hotter the object, the faster its molecules are moving. Toronto is a Mohawk word meaning ‘where trees stand in water’. Ducks awaken at the quack of dawn. The opposite of fear is trust. Swans and geese are members of the duck family.  With 15,000+ locations, Circle K is Earth’s second-largest convenience store chain. Ottawa slapped tariffs of 25% on all good imported from the US, today in 1879. Some people fear heights; others fear widths.  A culver is a keeper of doves. Concentric, congruent and tangent are the three types of circles. Instagram debuted in 2012. Canadawide, one can eat at any of 631 Subway Shops.  Mysterious forces tell birds when you’ve just washed your car. The first shipment of VW Beetles arrived in Canada--a dozen in all-- in the summer of 1952. Wiffle ball w...

Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Newfoundland and Labrador. Fawkes’ failure to blow up the House of Lords is celebrated with fireworks in the UK and New Zealand as well.  The first opinion poll was conducted in 1824. The American persimmon tree is also known as possumwood.  A thief broke into a cop shop and stole all the toilets. Police say they have nothing to go on.  Gorillas belch when they are happy. Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of how humans perceive sound.  Currently, the global participation of women in national-level parliaments is 23.3% Today in 1895, George B. Seldon was granted the first US patent for an automobile.  Cole’s Law is very thinly sliced cabbage mixed with a dressing.  Toronto is the fifth largest city in North America. If it weren’t for the colouring, Coca-Cola would be green.  In 2006, someone tried to sell New Zealand on e-Bay.  FDR was elected to a third term as presid...