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This is World Chocolate Day. 92% of the citizens on the Solomon Islands are Christian.  According to StatsCan, 3.5 million seniors drive.  Avocados ripen more quickly when placed in a wool sock and set in a dark place.  Nobody knows the truffles I've seen. ~George Lang Paternity tests came into being in the early 1980s. Today in 1969, MPs passed the Official Languages Act. The first junk food was Cracker Jack, introduced at the Chicago World’s Fair, in 1893. A dream is an involuntary succession of images, ideas, emotions and sensations. The DNA strand asked its twin, “Do these genes make me look fat?” Microwave kitchen sponges for 90 seconds, to destroy 99% of bacterial contaminants. Arthur Ganong of St. Stephen, NB invented the chocolate nut bar in 1910. It cost  5¢. Rolls-Royce builds nuclear reactors for the Royal Navy’s submarines. Sliced bread was sold for the first time on this date in 1928.  Spotted an Air Can...

Today is World Chocolate Day. Detroit has 70,000 abandoned buildings, 31,000 abandoned homes and 90,000 vacant lots. In many Asian cuisines, slices of ginger are eaten between courses, to cleanse the palette.  The Black Forest measures 160 kilometres in length and is 60 kilometres wide.  Fingers grow on leather palms. 40% of the world’s oil comes from the Indian Ocean. Victorian doctors routinely prescribed fried mice as a remedy for children who wet the bed. Today in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev became General Secretary of the USSR's Communist Party.  Declared satanic, Pope Clement VII loved coffee; he baptized it and give it Christian food status in 1600. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  With radiation therapy, 56% of Canadians survive lung cancer. Fried mice are a popular street snack in Malawi.  General Wolf beat the Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, in the Battle of Québec, tod...