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The leaves on a four-leaf clover represent hope, faith, love and luck. Authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved are the four types of parenting. From St. John’s to Victoria, we can donate to 86,260 charitable organizations. It is peace for Ireland as the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast, today in 1998. Folk who iron a four-leaf clover are really pressing their luck.  74% of the sun’s mass is hydrogen.  Garlic is a member of of the lily family.  The Library of Canada contains 54 million catalogued items.  Today in 1972, an earthquake killed 4,000 people in Iran. Be wary of on-line articles about health—you could die of a misprint.  The mathematical term ‘fraction’ comes from the Latin ‘fractio’, to break. A newborn baby porcupine is called a porcupette.  Western Union operates more than 500,000 agencies in 200 countries.  Today in 1842, Halifax was incorporated as a city. Three out of...

Save the date; there are 328 days until Christmas.  Fingernails grow twice as fast as toenails.  The House of Commons seats 338 Members of Parliament. Fairy tales are a sub-class of the folktale.  My neighbour is worried about his fingernails; he says they’re completely out of hand.  A medium-sized tomato packs 35 calories.  Traditionally, entire families roller skate to church on Christmas morning in Venezuela.  More than half the world’s rabbits live in North America. Today in 1961, the Imperial Bank of Canada and the Canadian Bank of Commerce merged to form the CIBC.  Punch buggy! No punch backs! In 1933, Plexiglass first came to market in Germany. Superbugs infect 20,000 hospital patients a year, adding $250 million to the healthcare tab. Muslims make up 14.23% of India’s population.  Today in 1916, the Centre Block of Parliament burnt. German terrorists were suspected. Should we ever take over t...

Carve that jack-o’-lantern, there are 23 days until Hallowe’en. The average Hong Konger walks four kilometres a day, the most on the planet. Polyethylene and polypropylene are the two most common plastics. The ooey-gooey Nanaimo bar recipe first appeared in a 1953 cookbook.  Appéritif: a full set of dentures.  BMW’s first car, the Dixi, bowed in 1929; prior to that the firm manufactured aircraft engines. There are three types of snails.  Irving Oil operates 900 gas stations in Atlantic Canada, Québec, eastern Ontario and New England. Today in 2006, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test. The wedding was very emotional; even the cake was in tiers. Vancouver is the bank robbery capital of Canada. Chickens often sneeze. Costco is the world’s second largest retailer.  This is Leif Erikson Day in Iceland, Norway and the United States. So you skipped Helsinki on your Nordic Tour. Your life remains un-Finnished. ...