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Today in 1849 Denmark became a constitutional monarchy. 68% of all Canadians live within five minutes of public transport. Cranberries bounce like rubber balls when ripe.  The surname Elliott is the English variation of Elijah. The crazy man who highjacked the VIA Rail train last week had a loco-motive. Crayons were invented in 1795. The US, Japan, Germany, Poland, the UK, Israel and Italy are home to the most vegans. The word ‘shrink’ to mean a psychiatrist entered the lexicon in 1950. Today in 1876 The Supreme Court of Canada sat for the first time. My neighbour was ordered to see a psychiatrist. He complained they wouldn’t shrink the bill. Attila the Hun’s empire collapsed in 468 AD. A 60-watt light bulb is equal to one with 900 lumens. Kingsford charcoal came from Ford auto production wood scraps, and sold at Ford dealers. Québec led the way, today in 2014 the National Assembly passed right-to-die legislation.  Plant a l...

Volleyball was originally introduced as the game of ‘mintonette’. Today in 1489, Queen Catherine of Cyprus sold her kingdom to Venice. The hotter the object, the faster its molecules are moving. Toronto is a Mohawk word meaning ‘where trees stand in water’. Ducks awaken at the quack of dawn. The opposite of fear is trust. Swans and geese are members of the duck family.  With 15,000+ locations, Circle K is Earth’s second-largest convenience store chain. Ottawa slapped tariffs of 25% on all good imported from the US, today in 1879. Some people fear heights; others fear widths.  A culver is a keeper of doves. Concentric, congruent and tangent are the three types of circles. Instagram debuted in 2012. Canadawide, one can eat at any of 631 Subway Shops.  Mysterious forces tell birds when you’ve just washed your car. The first shipment of VW Beetles arrived in Canada--a dozen in all-- in the summer of 1952. Wiffle ball w...

Estonia is home to 200 wolves. 95% of all farms in British Columbia are family run and owned.  Amazon owns 30 cargo planes and leases another ten to deliver goods in 30 countries. Memory foam was invented by NASA in the 1970s. The best butter on the farm is a goat. Québec City is the eleventh largest city in the nation.   Physical, physiological and cognitive are the three classes of optical illusions.  Tsetse flies fold their wings one on top of the other when at rest. Whispering is an unvoiced mode of phonation in which the vocal cords do not vibrate. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease. ~George W. Bush Refined canola oil’s burn point is 204°C. Canada and France have the only two tidal power plants on Earth.  The cast iron Dutch oven was invented in 1702. On 04 September 1939, Nepal declared war on Germany. You know it’s a bad cook when there are bones in the toast. Sesame seeds are black or ...

Malaysian law allows couples to divorce by text message. On this date in 1882, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow. A drop of water has a mass of .050 grams. 28% of South Koreans live in single-person households.  It is a good idea to check with Environment Canada before praying for rain. The Supreme Court ruled that Québec could not separate from Canada without Ottawa's approval, today in 1998. Dried pods from the mesquite tree can be ground into flour for cooking and baking. Chancellor Merkel makes breakfast for her husband, every morning. India’s chefs recognize 36 regional cuisines. Butter v margarine: trust cows more than chemists. President Emmanuel Macron is a prize-winning pianist. The population of Mesquite, Nevada numbers 17,987 souls. This is World Mosquito Day. Cresteta Cumerford  immigrated to the US at 23. She became Head Chef at the White House in 2005. It is possible that fireflies are just mosquitoes w...

Gravity is significantly weaker in Hudson Bay.  Today is also Father’s Day in El Salvador and Guatemala.  Butter becomes spreadable at 15.5°C. Torontonian Norman Breakey invented the paint roller in 1940. Red meat is better for you than green fuzzy meat.  The average lifespan of a horse is 25 years.  There are four types of germs.  Beer is an official food in the German State of Bavaria.  3 to 1 is the ratio of Jordanians to refugees in the Heshamite Kingdom. The germ crossed the microscope to get to the other slide.  Eating nine kilos a year, Denmark’s best-selling confection is Haribo Gold-Bears gummy candies. Today in 1946, an F4 tornado swept through Windsor, Ontario killing 17 and injuring hundreds more. This is National Eat Your Vegetables Day. Canadians' top picks: corn and broccoli. Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru are the monikers of the three wise monkeys.   Mitosis is a divisive issue.  ...