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Binoculars gallows, glasses, pliers, scissors, shears and tongs  exist only in plural form. The tongue depressor was invented in 1923. Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix are the triple crown of auto racing. Folks speak 140+ languages in Windsor, ON; the nation's third most cosmopolitan city.  An interpreter is a ventriloquist using two dummies. The Roman deity of September, Vulcan was the god of fire and forge. 27,195 souls live in Labrador.  Yellow tennis balls were used at Wimbledon for the first time in 1986. The word checkmate comes from Arabic; it means 'The king is dead'.  My neighbour says he slept like a log; he woke up in the fireplace. Frankenstein's monster was vegan. The first colour photograph as taken in 1861. 63% of Canadians choose Chinese cuisine, when eating out. The International Space Station runs on Greenwich Mean Time.  Old astronauts never die, they just space out.  Tofu can be m...

Mongolians fête the 1000 Camel Festival with beauty contests and races for their rides. For 59 years the Grey Panthers have combatted ageism and other social justice issues. Today in 1944, Allied troops stormed Nazi-held France on the coast of Normandy. Staring at stripes increases gamma oscillations, they can trigger headaches or seizures. The aging process would be slowed greatly if it had to work its way through Parliament.  The consistency of tofu is very similar to the human brain. Our first PM, Sir John A. Macdonald, died at home, age 76, on this date in 1891. Black panthers in Africa and Asia are leopards. In the Americas, they are jaguars.  Given a government with a big surplus, a big majority and a weak opposition, you could debauch a committee of angels. ~Sir John A. Macdonald. Canada ranks 17th  for the lowest world international tariffs.  North Koreans miscreants are punished, as is the family for the next ...

A mari usque ad mare, 37 million mark Canada’s 151st birthday with parades, picnics and fireworks. Citizens of Burundi, Rwanda and Somalia mark their independence days this July 1st. The fewest babies are born in the month of February. It is estimated that as many as 20,000 shipwrecks lay in watery graves, off the coast of Atlantic Canada. Our main exports are hockey stars and cold fronts. Our #1 imports are baseball players and acid rain. ~ Pierre Trudeau A third of Montréalers change residences on July 1st, earning the unofficial holiday nickname of ‘Moving Day’. Camel's milk is richer in iron, vitamins, minerals and contains less fat than cow’s milk. Titanium has the highest tensile strength to density ratio of any metal; Tungsten ranks #2. Flying high over the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada’s largest flag measures 18 metres by nine. Canada is America’s attic.  Mormons worship in 159 temples in more than 40 countries-11 more are cu...