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The dolphin's closest relative is the hippopotamus.  Today in 1934, Germans voted to give sole executive powers to Adolph Hitler. The most popular way to tour Montréal is by bicycle. Quinoa, sesame and buckwheat are pseudo-cereals.  Speaking from the Nazi military moon base, Hitler declared war on Jewpiter. The demonym for the good folk in Cork, Ireland is Leesiders. A whale calf drinks  its mother's milk for eleven months, before being weaned. The sun's diameter is 109 times larger than that of planet Earth. Today in 1945, Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh declared war on France. A baby seal walks into a club... Biscotti means 'twice baked' in Italian. Nitroglycerin was invented in 1847. Composer Richard Wagner owned a pink carpet made of flamingo feathers. Today in 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceased to exist. If you see something fluffy and white, swinging through the bakery, it is a meringue-atange. In Sackville...

Second only to China, India has more than 300 million SmartPhone users. Today in 1930, the British Empire (now Commonwealth) Games opened in Hamilton, Ontario. Every watermelon has an even number of stripes. Marco Polo dictated his travel memoirs to a romance novelist while both were prisoners. That unlimited cellphone plan—there’s no limit as to how much they can charge me. Buddhism was the first large-scale missionary movement in the history of world religions. 600,000 Solomon Islanders can tune in to the state broadcaster and two commercial FM radio stations. Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo were close friends. The Danish monarchy is more than 1,000 years old. Royal chairs are never throne out. Workers in Samsung’s six factories churn out two smartphones every second. Today in 1934, The United States military pulled out of Haiti after occupying the country for 19 years. Bach composed 1,128 pieces of music in his 65 years. The Belgian Congo was g...