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Porsche built tanks for the Wermacht during World War Two.  Today in 1967, Toronto's Caribbean community celebrated the first Caribana. The A830 Airbus can seat 853 passengers.  Revolts take place to overthrow oppressors; the rebellious want concessions from overlords.   Cross an airplane with a psychic--the result is a flying sorcerer.  New Brunswick boasts four artisanal cheesemakers.  The word stucco  means plaster in Italian. Only male crickets can chirp.  On this date in 1930, Uruguay won the first FIFA World Cup. A cannibal's favourite cheese is limb-burger. Today in 1975, Petro-Canada was created by an act of Parliament. Shakespeare penned, 'Brevity is the soul of wit'.  A group of foxes is called an 'earth'.  Louis Comfort Tiffany began to produce stained glass windows in 1878. My neighbour would go to the four corners of Earth to prove the world is not flat. The RMS Queen Mary sailed across t...

People from Rio de Janeiro are called Cariocans. Home Hardware has more than 1,100 stores nationwide and one in St. Pierre & Miquelon. Today in 1842 Halifax was incorporated as a city. Daylight Savings Time begins today in North America; the EU has abolished it. Homeowners are always ‘just’ coming out of the hardware store.  Only one in a million mined diamonds becomes jewellery.  On behalf of the Sovereign, 42 Crown corporations are administered by Ottawa.  Indoor tanning is illegal in New South Wales.  Today in 1978, Judy Cameron became Air Canada’s first female pilot. Royals have moved into the neighbourhood; they live Tudors down. A firstborn child is eager to learn while a second child wants to ‘win’. In 1939, Adolph Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Federal Government’s single largest annual expenditure is Old Age Pension benefits. Today in 1922, Gandhi was arrested and sentenced to a six-year ...