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Today is Army Day in Brazil. The garnet gemstone was named after the seeds of the pomegranate. The Canadian Canoe Association is 119 years old. 1,343,098 Swazis celebrate King Mswati III's birthday in Eswatini, a.k.a. Swaziland.  Jewellery takes people’s mind off of a lady’s wrinkles.  Sell the lawnmower; AstroTurf went on sale for the first time 55 years ago. Today in 1984, CP Air became a national carrier by burying Eastern Provincial Airways. Stress is the fifth leading factor in skin breakouts. Kiwis relax and unwind in any of the nation’s 13 national parks. Airline pilots should take crash courses. The first lawyers were Athenian Orators.  The American Eel migrates from the Sargasso Sea to Niagara Falls and then the Labrador. Save the date, there are 615 days until Christmas. Today in 1927, New Brunswick legislators voted to take charge of alcohol sales. There are only two jokes about barristers and solicitors—the rest ar...

Tuscany was the first jurisdiction to adopt the Gregorian calendar, on this date in 1750. Batology is the scientific study of blackberries.  3 997°C is the melting point of ceramic material.  One of our largest ethnic groups, StatsCan reports 1,035,969 Canadians of Dutch ancestry.  Warning: Dates in calendars are closer than they appear.  108,860 souls reside in St. John’s NL,  Atlantic Canada’s second-largest urban centre. Save the date! There are only 364 days until Christmas.  January’s birthstone is the garnet.  Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India today in 1877. Jewels are like ice cream, there’s always room for more.  The maximum rider count per Montréal Métro car is1,260; nine cars make up a subway train.  The bar codes of all newspapers begin with the numbers 977. Australia became a nation today in 1901.  The myrtle tree family includes the bay rum, clove, guava, allspice and ...