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Today is Independence Day in Tonga, a British Protectorate from 1900 to 1970. Acorns are toxic to dogs and horses. Since there are no contradictions, adherents of Shinto often practise Buddhism, as well. Vegans shun avocados--farmers truck bees from orchard to orchard-- as pollination slaves. The tofu crossed the road to prove he wasn’t chicken. Today in 1792, Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Great Britain. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,’ uses all 26 alphabet letters--a pangram.  Turks and the Irish are the world’s largest consumers of tea.  Queen Elizabeth II owns Stonehenge. Newbies to the tea culture encounter a steep learning curve. Aztecs raised Chihuahuas for their meat. Salt is electrically neutral.  3.7% of PE Islanders live on farms. Today in 1989, the Chinese Army quashed protesters in Tiananmen Square; 241 killed. When elephants want a light snack, they eat candles. Hands dow...

Some 600 civilian police protect those who work on Parliament Hill.  The Canadian Revenue Agency wants your taxes by midnight tonight. The first trains were drawn by horses, not locomotives. More than 59,000 ATMs and 450,000 merchants take Interac. My neighbour’s car broke down between the harbour and Caesar's; he’s between a dock and a card place. A badger’s home is called a ‘sett’. CCM skates are developed in Montréal and manufactured in Asia.  This is Reunification Day in Vietnam. Nearly bankrupt, RCMP absorbed the New Brunswick Provincial Police today in 1932. If all the cars in the nation were parked end-to-end, it would be Canada Day. Today in 1980, Saskatchewan’s Gordie Howe hung up his skates at the age of 52. Every single cell in the body contains salt, which allows communication. Dig from Windsor, ON through the centre of Earth, and come out at Ozyorsk in Russia. In 1920, drunk driving became an unlawful act in Alberta. C...