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Porsche built tanks for the Wermacht during World War Two.  Today in 1967, Toronto's Caribbean community celebrated the first Caribana. The A830 Airbus can seat 853 passengers.  Revolts take place to overthrow oppressors; the rebellious want concessions from overlords.   Cross an airplane with a psychic--the result is a flying sorcerer.  New Brunswick boasts four artisanal cheesemakers.  The word stucco  means plaster in Italian. Only male crickets can chirp.  On this date in 1930, Uruguay won the first FIFA World Cup. A cannibal's favourite cheese is limb-burger. Today in 1975, Petro-Canada was created by an act of Parliament. Shakespeare penned, 'Brevity is the soul of wit'.  A group of foxes is called an 'earth'.  Louis Comfort Tiffany began to produce stained glass windows in 1878. My neighbour would go to the four corners of Earth to prove the world is not flat. The RMS Queen Mary sailed across t...

On this date in 2003, the final Volkswagen Beetle ever, rolled out the doors in Mexico. The year 2018 has 53 Mondays. This will not happen again until 2024.  A group of soap bubbles is called foam.  55 gumshoes work in Newfoundland & Labrador, 220 in Nova Scotia and 1,250 in Alberta. I’ve never been a billionaire but I have a premonition that I’d be good at it.  Today in 1962, the 7,821 kilometre Trans-Canada Highway officially opened. Retailers sell 200 million bottles of soap bubbles annually.  75 people work as security guards in Nunavut.  A dill pickle slush costs $1.49 before 10a at 3,557 Sonic Drive-Ins in 45 of the United States.  The pen is mightier than the sword, said no one ever, after being attacked by a sword.  In North America, Monday is the least rainy day of the week.  Celebrated since 1980, this is Independence Day for 270,002 citizens of Vanuatu. Entertaining and amusing Earthlings fo...