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This the International Day of Families. The Reader’s Digest version of the Ten Commandments is: DON’T! Between 30,000 to 40,000 Canadians work in the United States. Eat six prunes for 4 grams of fibre. No matter how young a prune may be, it’s always full of wrinkles. 92% of iPhone users are brand loyal.  In a pinch, grits can double as kitty litter.  161,000 people work for Unilever, worldwide. Today in 1894 Nova Scotia banned alcohol sales.  My neighbour's cellphone plan is unlimited. There’s no limit as to how much Bell can charge. The platypus secretes 80 poisonous toxins. From St. John’s to Victoria, we have 525,757 Registered Nurses. Folks have been wishing others to ‘Have a nice day’  since 1948. The main ingredients in cola are citrus oils, cinnamon, vanilla and an acidic flavouring. Hôtel-Dieu has a maternity nurse shortage; it’s a mid-wife crisis.  White burgundy is made from chardonnay grapes; red...

The United States Marine Corp was founded today in 1775. The black currant can live for 15 to 30 years in the wild.  Manufacturing giant Unilever buys a third of the world’s tea production. There are more than 130 pyramids in Egypt.  He was only a whisky maker but she loved him still.  The last letter of the alphabet in Icelandic, Swedish and Finnish is Ö. More than 25% of the world’s annual e-mails are sent during holidays.  Today in 1975, the ore carrier   SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank, with all 29 hands on board. St. Uguzon is the patron saint of cheesemakers.  Our noses run and our feet smell.  As observed throughout the 50 United States, this is National Vanilla Cupcake Day.  Doberman pinschers were traditionally bred as guard dogs. One out of every 33 people on the planet are international migrants, a.k.a. refugees. Tonight in 1932, Foster Hewett called the first Hockey Night in Canada broadcast on the...