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Today in 1870, Manitoba entered Confederation as our fifth province. To dream about mustard is a promise of wealth, success and happiness. William Clement built the first grandfather clock in 1670. Single-cell, multi-cell cluster, multi-cell lines and supercells: the four types of thunderstorms. Grandfather clocks are old timers.  There are 12 Disney resorts.  The human foot has three arches. Manitoba means 'the great spirit speaks', in Cree. Coconut milk can be whipped into cream.  Snow White treats the Seven Dwarfs equally because she's the fairest of them all.  The Panama Canal is 82 kilometres long. The word dinosaur comes from Greek; it means 'terrible lizard'. Ottawa is home to 14 national museums and hosts 35 festivals each year.  No bridges cross the Amazon River. My neighbour thought he found a dinosaur but it was a fossil arm. Today in 2013, Loblaws announced it would buy Shoppers Drug Mart. Wales is comprised ...

Today in 1970, Ian Smith cut ties with Britain and declared Rhodesia to be a republic. The doughnut making machine was invented by Adolph Levitt in 1920. $450,000 is the average price of a mobile home in Yellowknife. The first text message was sent in 1992. My neighbour was so poor as a kid he didn’t build sand castles he built sand mobile homes. 250 millilitres of coconut milk contains 560 calories. The No. 1 magazine is The Watchtower: 40 million a month are printed in 180 languages, distributed in in 236 countries. The supersonic Concorde airliner successfully completed its maiden flight today, in 1969. Michelangelo was a poet, more than 300 of his poems have been preserved. The highest honour a cowboy poet can receive is Poet Lariat.  The Dutch spent €1.2 billion last year to buy a million bicycles. The name Bernard means bold bear. India adopted the Rupee as its official currency in 1818.  The city of Montréal budgets $163.3 m...