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Today in 1970, Ian Smith cut ties with Britain and declared Rhodesia to be a republic. The doughnut making machine was invented by Adolph Levitt in 1920. $450,000 is the average price of a mobile home in Yellowknife. The first text message was sent in 1992. My neighbour was so poor as a kid he didn’t build sand castles he built sand mobile homes. 250 millilitres of coconut milk contains 560 calories. The No. 1 magazine is The Watchtower: 40 million a month are printed in 180 languages, distributed in in 236 countries. The supersonic Concorde airliner successfully completed its maiden flight today, in 1969. Michelangelo was a poet, more than 300 of his poems have been preserved. The highest honour a cowboy poet can receive is Poet Lariat.  The Dutch spent €1.2 billion last year to buy a million bicycles. The name Bernard means bold bear. India adopted the Rupee as its official currency in 1818.  The city of Montréal budgets $163.3 m...

Athazagoraphobics suffer from the irrational fear of being forgotten or ignored. Idiot mittens are  attached with yarn—through coat sleeves—to keep them from being lost. This is Independence Day for those who live in The Gambia, freed from Britain’s rule in 1965. The Ski-Doo was the Ski-Dog until the painter mis-painted the name on the prototype. There were no gunslingers in early western Canada because they all wore mittens.  Strict vegans abhor silk.  There are precisely 138 terminal board positions in a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. Today in 1815, the Treaty of Ghent was proclaimed in Washington, ending the War of 1812. Art Deco reigned as the international style king from 1925 to 1939.  The tofu crossed the road to prove it wasn’t chicken.  The top request by our soldiers in WWII was Hockey Night in Canada ; smokes came second. The Egg McMuffin was first introduced to fast food junkies in 1972.  Today in 1861, Jefferso...