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Today in 1912, Wilby and Haney began the first cross-Canada auto trip. 52 days later they arrived in Vancouver. Bananas are an $11 million global industry. The British Empire was superseded by the Commonwealth in 1926.  There are two kinds of freckles. A voyage of 1,000 kilometres begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire. Throughout the 50 United States of America, this is National Banana Lovers’ Day. Dry rot is commonly treated with antifreeze. It is illegal for Monegasques to gamble in any of Monaco’s casinos. In 1969, Burger King's first Canadian restaurant opened in Windsor ON—now we have 281 BKs Canadawide.  There is a hotdog that constantly cracks jokes--it's on a roll.  ‘April showers bring May flowers’ first appeared—in 1557—written as a lesson in patience.  Cavendish bananas are cloned. Every one is genetically identical.  Opening a factory in St. Catherines, ON in 1910, a 1912 REO was first to cross the n...

Today is Independence Day in Cambodia, it gained independence from France in 1953. 26.7% of the United Arab Emirates’ population is female, the lowest in the world. The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.  The treadmill was originally a torture device for prisoners. Parisian frogs routinely feast on French flies.  Bees can fly higher than Mt. Everest. Bananas grow upside down. Elastic bands last longer when refrigerated. The Berlin Wall fell on this date in 1989. Germans are buried five metres below ground; deep down, they’re really nice.  An armadillo’s shell is bulletproof.  Frankenstein is 200 years old.  In Finland, 600,000+ cards are sent to Santa Claus each year.  On this date in 2016, Donald Trump was declared winner of the US Presidential Election. My neighbour has found the truth and it is made of pasta.  Wimbledon tennis balls are kept at 20°C. In his youth, Abraham Lincoln was a licens...

The fine for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City is $1,000. There are 16 million tractors on the planet. Fingernails grow twice as fast as toenails.  On this date in 1990, the Berlin Wall met with wrecking cranes.  If you notice an onion ring, then answer it. People express six basic emotions. The world’s first police car appeared on the streets of Akron, Ohio in 1899.  Quaker Oats is owned by PepsiCo.  Switzerland is home to 216 banking institutions.  Folks who can’t eat rice with their curry are most likely basmatic.  Egypt and Peru hold national elections on Sundays. A lemon tree produces 300 kilos of fruit a year. Bell Canada was incorporated on this date in 1880. The World Wildlife Fund has counted 3,890 tigers in the world’s jungles.  Toblerone chocolate bars are triangular in shape so they will fit in the box. 255 babies are born every minute of every day.  Beating bananas--three t...