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A week-old baguette makes a formidable impromptu weapon; it can knock an enemy out cold.  Make room, NBC. Today in 1927, the Columbia Broadcasting System took to the airwaves. Danish Blue Cheese is aged for eight to twelve months. A 1954 Gallup Poll found a Canadian family of four lived well on $50 weekly—$10 less than in 1951. Many people think they want careers when all they really want are paycheques.  The Faroe Islands became independent of Denmark today in 1946. The Walmart Roll Back price is $999 for a casket.  The primary colours for TV screens and computer monitors are red, green and blue. A potato is 80% water.   Some people drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.  Strawberries grow in all ten Provinces of Canada and each of the 50 United States.  Today in 1885 Montréalers rioted in protest of compulsory smallpox vaccinations. Batology is the taxonomic study of the more than 1,000 known species of...

Today is National Flag Day for 144.3 million Russians. Defined as betrayal of trust; breach of faith, the word ‘treason’ entered the lexicon c. 1200. Lord Cadillac built Fort Ponchartrain (Detroit, MI and Windsor,ON) for France in 1701. The City of Chennai—once known as Madras—was founded today in 1639. The 4 kilometre-square Stanley Park is home to a dozen species of trees native to BC.  116 years ago today, the Cadillac Motor Company was founded by Henry Leland. Speakers of Inuktitut cannot distinguish the difference between ‘d’ and ’t’ in English. The largest pipeline spans 1.39 metres; it carries 33 billion cubic litres of natural gas a year. On this date in 1992, the nation’s First Ministers signed the Charlottetown Accord. Australia’s 26,000 brickies lay more than 100,000 bricks a year. A baguette in Brussels costs 0.49€. A most fertile Marie-Thérèse,, a.k.a. Lady Cadillac, bore six daughters and seven sons. The Prado is the sixth mos...