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Toronto means 'meeting place' in the Iroquois language. Paneer is cottage cheese.  Chromophobes struggle with the irrational fear of colours. Containing 55% sugar, the fig is the sweetest of all fruit. Meetings are where minutes are kept and hours lost. Oxygen was identified as an element in 1773.  The Sahara Desert blankets 31% of Africa. The name Marlene is a portmanteau of Maria and Magdelene. Anxious Canadians began popping Valium in 1963. Asthmatics suck at breathing. The term 'senior citizen' was coined in 1937. A Swedish Krona equals 14¢ Canadian. More than 3,300 islands dot the Mediterranean Sea. Winches and capstans are machines designed to pull ropes. My neighbour is so old that when he was born, the Dead Sea was just sick. Cats have no collarbones. Jews, Christians and Muslims share a belief in angels. Pink is a palliative colour.  8.2 million of us have dogs as pets. Spelling bees are smarter than talking cats. F...

Today in 1951, the Royal Canadian Army entered combat in the Korean Conflict. 4.8 million people live in Liberia. There are an estimated 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. Figs were so highly desirable that Marco Polo compared beautiful women to them. Mars must be colonized. If we don’t do it, squirrels will.  On this date in 1952, King George VI died in his sleep at the age of 56. It costs $170 for enough helium to blow up 500 balloons in Oshawa and Durham Region. Mozzarella was traditionally made from buffalo milk.  759 million people cannot read or write.  My next-door neighbour is addicted to Cheddar; he says it’s mild, though. The Japanese, Americans and French buy the most comic books.  Hoi polloi is a derogatory Greek expression meaning the common people. A human hand has 27 bones and an adult male’s hand weighs 500 grams. Currently there are 4,770 practising psychiatrists from Vancouver Island to Newfoundla...

A newborn baby seahorse is called a colt. On this date in 1945, Germany formally surrendered to the Allies.  Divorce is illegal in The Philippines. Rupophiles have an affinity for dirt.  It’s a sign of the times, ‘Exit’ signs are on their way out.  Mercedes-Benz purchased Chrysler on this date in 1988—the largest industrial merger in history.  According to Norwegian law, only male cats and dogs may be neutered.  Winnie-the-Pooh was published in Latin in 1958 and hit the NY Times Best Seller List.  With the Road Traffic Act of 1930, automobile insurance was made compulsory in the UK. Chicken coops have two doors—if they had four—they’d be chicken sedans.  Ultracrepidarians voice opinions on subjects they know nothing about. The flag of Mozambique features an AK-47 assault rifle.  A fig tree’s blossoms are inside the fruit.  In Manila, people whose license plates end in ‘1’ or ‘2’ may not drive on...