Yes it really happened

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on this day

In 1838 the coronation of Queen Victoria, aged 19, took place at Westminster Abbey; in 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo; in 1960 45 miners died in a gas explosion at the Six Bells Colliery in Monmouthshire, Wales; in 1991 the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher (obituary, April 8, 2013) declared that she would retire from the House of Commons at the next general election; in 2004 US-led coalition forces in Iraq transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government in Baghdad, two days ahead of schedule. It came just over a year after the March 2003 invasion.

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WW2 where did the soldiers come from?
" India mobilised two and half million soldiers, the largest volunteer army ever assembled, while a thousand men from the Cayman Islands joined the Royal Navy – equivalent to roughly two thirds of the adult male population."

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Steam fog horn (1853/1854)

Conceived by Scottish-born Canadian Robert Foulis in either 1853 or 1854, the first steam-powered fog horn was installed on New Brunswick's Partridge Island in 1859.

Foulis was inspired to create the warning device after reading about a shipwreck off the Newfoundland coast. His invention has undoubtedly saved an untold number of lives around the world.

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Electric oven (1882)
©Courtesy Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation
Wowing his dinner guests, Ottawan engineer Thomas Ahearn scored a world-first in 1882 when he cooked a meal in an electric range he had developed in secret.

The technology was brought to market a decade later when the first commercial electric oven was installed in the Canadian capital's Windsor Hotel.

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Paint roller (1940)

Professional decorators and DIY-ers the world over have Toronto's Norman Breakey to thank for inventing the paint roller, the time-saving marvel that almost guarantees the smoothest of paint finishes.

Sadly, Breakey failed to patent his innovation and was pipped to the post by American Richard Croxton Adams, who registered a rival design.

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The first Coke was red wine mixed with cocaine

Pemberton’s inspiration for the drink was a popular concoction called Vin Mariani, invented in France. It was a mixture of Bordeaux red wine and cocaine. From 1895,it was marketed as a tonic that "fortifies and refreshes the body and brain". However, the US, especially the Deep South, was in the midst of an anti-alcohol movement. This gave Pemberton the idea of creating a drink for those who were abstinent.

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There is no official language in the USA

You might assume that English is the official tongue of the USA – but although it's the most widely spoken language in the States, it's not federally recognized as the official language. In fact, the US has no official vernacular at all. It's estimated that more than 350 languages are spoken in the country today, from Spanish to Swahili and everything in between.

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The Library of Congress has 838 miles of bookshelves

The dizzying Library of Congress is a book lover's dream. About 173 million items are piled up on its shelves. If the bookshelves were arranged in a line, they would spool out for a whopping 838 miles. The tomes range from children's fiction to important political titles and they sit alongside photos, journals, maps, sound recordings and more.

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A man from MILWAUKEE USA whose house was on the aircraft landing run couldn't stand the noise of landing aircraft both day and night.
To gain some revenge satisfaction, he painted this on his rooftop

"WELCOME TO CLEVELAND" for passengers to see upon approach

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©Krispy Kreme

Some stores make 20 million doughnuts a year

At a Krispy Kreme store, the machine turns on at 4am and begins to churn out hot doughnuts. At a single location, approximately 22,000 are made every day, which is 55,000 a week and 16 million a year. Some of the busiest stores make a whopping 20 million a year, while the company as a whole sold an inconceivable 1.63 billion doughnuts in 2022.

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At a Krispy Kreme store, the machine turns on at 4am and begins to churn out hot doughnuts. At a single location, approximately 22,000 are made every day, which is 55,000 a week and 16 million a year.

Dems' some pretty screwy maths, Dd.

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I flunked math

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WW2 the Market Garden formation for the attack on the Netherland was
3 miles across and a staggering 94 miles long. When men were parachuting into their destinations, planes and gliders were still taking off in Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQv44gd6TJU

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In the US
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, handlers say, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather

Meanwhile in Canada
At 8:07 a.m., Wiarton Willie arose from his burrow in Wiarton Ontario, and woke up to see overcast skies, with no shadow. An early spring is expected.

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Use Protection
The oldest condoms ever found were made from animal and fish intestines. One particular example found in Sweden was crafted from pig intestine, and is thought to have been made around 1640 AD.

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The human body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring a gallon of water to a boil.