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This is Multiculturism Day, marking the unique and colourful, mosaic that is our country. According to legend, Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and Warfare, created the first olive tree. The portmanteau of ’smoke’ and ‘fog’, the word ‘smog’ entered the lexicon in 1905. It takes seven kilos of olives to make a litre of olive oil. Love is in the air and it’s highly polluted. Only 15% of business transactions in Sweden are cash. In ancient Greece, brides carried bouquets of garlic, not flowers. A macadamia nut contains 20 calories. Today in 1980,  O Canada became the national anthem. To make proper garlic toast, lift your glass and praise it for all of its accomplishments. Hydraulic systems convert existing energy from one form to another. Today in 1975, L’Anse aux Meadows Park in NL opened; the Viking town was found in 1961. Alliumphobes struggle with the irrational fear of garlic. Hewlett-Packard, Inc. is 80 years old. The Vikings’ head librar...

The leaves on a four-leaf clover represent hope, faith, love and luck. Authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved are the four types of parenting. From St. John’s to Victoria, we can donate to 86,260 charitable organizations. It is peace for Ireland as the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast, today in 1998. Folk who iron a four-leaf clover are really pressing their luck.  74% of the sun’s mass is hydrogen.  Garlic is a member of of the lily family.  The Library of Canada contains 54 million catalogued items.  Today in 1972, an earthquake killed 4,000 people in Iran. Be wary of on-line articles about health—you could die of a misprint.  The mathematical term ‘fraction’ comes from the Latin ‘fractio’, to break. A newborn baby porcupine is called a porcupette.  Western Union operates more than 500,000 agencies in 200 countries.  Today in 1842, Halifax was incorporated as a city. Three out of...

Fun Facts for 03 June 2018 Check the closet, and under the bed. Teraphobes suffer from an irrational fear of monsters.  Beginning in 1928, Volvo is now the world’s Number Two manufacturer of transport trucks.  Starting in 1923, humans have explored the Milky Way chocolate bar. 8 million shops from Hanoi to Hobart take people’s 323 million VISA cards, Earth’s leading plastic.  To spot an iceberg, one must have 20/20 ice sight. Automobile manufacturers need to build cars that last longer than the payments. The Roman numeral ten is ‘X’, or two Vs—one inverted—making the figure twice five.  British Columbia is four times larger than The British Isles.  It's a tossup as to whether Denmark or Sweden will be the world’s first cashless nation. Loyalty to petrified opinion has never broken a chain nor freed a human soul.  ~ Mark Twain Nine out of every ten Rolls-Royce automobiles built  since 1904 are still ro...