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There are six kinds of warts.  Newborn baby porcupines are called porcupettes.  After 109 years of French rule, the Union of Comoros gained independence today, in 1975. By far the largest group, more than 93,000 Canadians live illegally in the United States.  Scientists have crossed a pig with a cactus; the result is a porky-pine.  The average lifespan of a major league baseball in a game is five to seven pitches.  Little Red Riding Hood was first recorded as going to Grandmother’s house 322 years ago.  Police, fire or ambulance, in México, the emergency number is 065. Today in 1906, the Lord’s Day Act banned work, sports and business on Sundays. Those who respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.  Cut tinfoil with scissors to sharpen them.  Currency represents value but does not hold value.  Today in 2013 a train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, QC, killing 47 people. Th...

There are four types of Japanese tea ceremonies. Invented 60 years ago, Pong was the world's first video game. Today in 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the XI Olympiad in Berlin.  A heat wave must consist of three consecutive days where the mercury rises to 32°C. They used to time me with a stopwatch, now they use a calendar. On this date in 1944, Smokey the Bear began his appointed task of preventing forest fires. The Snowcastle of Kemi, Finland- is the world’s largest ice hotel-includes an eatery and a wedding chapel. My housekeeper is only second best—she just walked off with the silver.  Shopper’s Drug Mart, a.k.a. Pharmaprix, operates 1,307 stores in nine provinces and two territories. One fruit contains the elemental combination of barium and double sodium, the BaNaNa. Ford manufactures vehicles and components in 23  countries. An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki today, in 1945. 238 years ago, Farmer Brown named...