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Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden for more than 600 years. Every day 25 Canadians are diagnosed with brain tumours.  Chocolate has more than 600 flavour compounds; wine has 200.  Today in 2011, the Bank of Canada unveiled the new polymer bank notes. Toblerone chocolate bars are triangular in shape so they will fit in the box.   This is World Refugee Day, 70 million people are currently forcibly displaced. Native to Florida, the Manchineel tree is the most poisonous tree in the world.  From St. John’s to Victoria, we consume six litres of chocolate milk, annually. We welcomed 28,000 refugees last year, more than any other nation. When a calf disobeys its mother, she tans its hide. Today in 2009, the Molson clan purchased the Montréal Canadiens.  It is estimated that annually, kidnappers make up to USD$500 million in ransom payments. The Andes Mountains contain 99% of Earth's tropical glaciers.  The world’s firs...

You can count on it, today is World Statistics Day.  With a population of 1.3 million, one out of every four Calgarians are foreign born. Snow White met the Seven Dwarfs in 1812. A guinea pig sleeps four hours a day, in ten-minute intervals.  Money is called dough because we all knead it. Fear is quantitative, humans can smell it.  Scientists have proven that travelling reduces heart attacks and improves memory. The human knee has fourteen ligaments. Today in 1865, Queen Victoria mfr Ottawa the capital of what would soon be Canada. Cash cows give richer milk. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has eight temples in Canada. Europeans were introduced to tea in the late 16th century. At this very moment there are more than 1.9 billion websites on the Internet. Today in 1956, the first Black Brant rockets were fired into space from the Churchill Rocket Research Range in Manitoba. This month’s hydro bill is a shocker. ...