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T Today in 1945, the 32nd President of the United States died at home. FDR was 63. The best-selling book in 2018 was The Marrow Thieves . The first yoga mats were made of deer or tiger skin.  Santa Fe means holy faith in Spanish.  “If you fall, I’ll be there,” said the yoga mat. The word ‘blog’ was coined in 1999. Fiddleheads are ripe for the picking along the St. John River.  Woodchucks began chucking wood in 1902-no idea how much wood was chucked. Todays in 1917, Queen’s Park granted women the right to vote in Ontario. Washington was the only US president not to blame the previous administration for problems. Johnny Appleseed was a minister of the Swedenborgian faith. The average lifespan of a cat is 12 to 15 years. Queen Elizabeth’s crown weighs 1.06 kilos. Louisiana has more alligators than any of the United States. Royal woodchucks are called crowned hogs. 10W30 oil will run an engine at 100°C. Today in 1980, Te...

33 countries’ names do not include the letter ‘A’. The strongest muscle is the masseter; it can chomp with a force of 100 kilos on your molars. Children must stay in school until they are 18, in Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick.  Queen Elizabeth II keeps a rubber duckie in her bathtub; it wears an inflatable crown.  We all learn by experience but some of us have to attend summer school. It was 19 years ago that the Plymouth brand of automobile went to automobile heaven. Concentrate: a rebus puzzle contains pictures, letters, words and numbers connected by +.  There have only been eleven Duchesses of York. Every winter, some 5 million tonnes of salt cover the nation’s highways and byways. Snowmen’s preferred form of transportation is the icicle.  The tongue is the only muscle attached at one end.  Vehicles’ taillights are red because it is the colour of blood and represents danger. Polar Bear Provincial Park is visited...

Yogourt naturally rehydrates skin. The House of Saud, the Saudi Royal Family, was established in 1744. Seeing the colour red makes the human heart beat faster. This is the UN’s World Toilet Day-- 4.5 billion people have no access to proper sanitation. Sobeys sells so many brands of yogourt, I can’t keep up; it’s all Greek to me. California has 30,000 registered professional firefighters. The turkey nearly became extinct in the 1930s because it was such a popular food. Ford announced it would drop the slow-selling Edsel on this date, in 1959. Unsafe water kills 200 children every hour.  A turkey got into a brawl, and got the stuffing knocked out of him. According to legend, a unicorn can purify water with a touch of its horn. By Royal Proclamation, the  Crown Colony of British Columbia was created today, in 1858. There are five kinds of warts. Water regulates Earth’s temperatures. My neighbour watched a documentary on the CBC about f...