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A medium-sized peach contains 37 calories. On this date in 1984, John Napier Turner was sworn in as the nation’s 17th Prime Minister.  During World War Two, Fisher-Price workers built parts for combat planes. Onyx is formed of bands of chalcedony in alternating colours.   The rest interval between eating peaches is called a pit stop.  Slang for $1,000, ‘grand’ entered the lexicon in 1915.  Deipnophobics struggle with the irrational fear of dinner party conversation.  Today in 1912, an F4 tornado tore through Regina. 28 were killed and 2,500+ left homeless. In Europe, the Number One most frequently shoplifted food item is cheese.  A bore is one with the power of speech but no capacity for conversation. ~Benjamin Disraeli Labyrinths are unicursal while mazes are branching.  KFC has restaurants in 115 countries. A rainbow’s arc is always 42°. Danes published the story first; Chicken Little discovered the sky was...

Volleyball was originally introduced as the game of ‘mintonette’. Today in 1489, Queen Catherine of Cyprus sold her kingdom to Venice. The hotter the object, the faster its molecules are moving. Toronto is a Mohawk word meaning ‘where trees stand in water’. Ducks awaken at the quack of dawn. The opposite of fear is trust. Swans and geese are members of the duck family.  With 15,000+ locations, Circle K is Earth’s second-largest convenience store chain. Ottawa slapped tariffs of 25% on all good imported from the US, today in 1879. Some people fear heights; others fear widths.  A culver is a keeper of doves. Concentric, congruent and tangent are the three types of circles. Instagram debuted in 2012. Canadawide, one can eat at any of 631 Subway Shops.  Mysterious forces tell birds when you’ve just washed your car. The first shipment of VW Beetles arrived in Canada--a dozen in all-- in the summer of 1952. Wiffle ball w...