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Plastic bags derive their strength from elasticity.  The CCF voted to change its name to the New Democratic Party, today in 1958. Fencing is one of only four sports to be in the Olympics since the 1896 restart. In India, the colour blue is reserved for mourning.  The Trudeau government will ban plastic--it's the last straw. The human ear contains the smallest muscles in the body.  Today in 1967, de Gaulle shouted, "Vive le Québec libre!" to 100,000, fanning separatism.   Stone masons make the best money in all of the construction trades. India had two time zones until 1955. Weightlifting vegetables are called muscle sprouts.  Denmark and New Zealand rank first and second as the least corrupt nations on the planet. 85% of teens struggle with acne.  Not Helvetic, Swiss steak takes its name from the butcher's term of 'swissing' or tenderizing. This is Simón Bolivar Day in Venezuela, Ecuador, Columbia and Bolivia. If all corrupt peo...

Today in 1965, Cross Country Checkup debuted on CBC Radio. Scots consider May to be an unlucky month. The phrase ‘when pigs fly’ is an adynaton, an extreme hyperbolic figure of speech. 34 muscles move the fingers and thumb. Spotted a one-armed man at the second-hand shop.  Pain, nausea and flu-like symptoms are results of sugar withdrawal. Limestone is often added to paint as a thickening agent.  Today in 1990, a fire broke out in Québec. It took four days to snuff the 3 million-tire inferno. One horsepower equals 735.5 watts. Glucose guardian is the gender-neutral term for ‘sugar daddy’. We have been shopping at amazon.ca since 2002. Ranking as Earth’s third least-indebted nation, Estonia’s national debt is 9.5%. Samurai were divided into twelve ranks. According to biblical account, King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 mistresses. Bargain: A transaction in which each party thinks he has cheated the other. 53% of Michigan i...

Having lost her ovis aries in 1805, Little Bo Peep continues the search. The area code for Hades is 666. The Flat Earth Society is locked in mortal combat with NASA. 250,584 sapeur pompiers fight fires in France. The EverBrite candle factory went up in flames—employees stood and sang Happy Birthday. As a transitive verb, the word ‘text’  was coined in 1998. Canada has fourteen commercial shipyards. There are seven categories of pollution.  Parisians were involved in 6,153 car collisions in 2015. Two croissants were crossing Champs-Élysées when one was run over. The other cried, “Oh! Crumb!”  A Toyota has 30,000 parts. Where there walks a logger, there walks a man. Diversity is a fact; inclusion is a choice. 45 kilometres is the length of the Detroit River. If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, my illegal logging operation is a success. 66% of traffic deaths in the US are the result of road rage. Mc...