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… that the Montreal Mafia Rizzuto family were hired by Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos to recover gold bullion that the dictator had stashed in Swiss bank accounts? —Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of...
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… that the practice of serving different courses one at a time rather than all at once arrived in French restaurants in the 1790s and was called “Russian Service”? —The Table Comes First: Family,...
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… that in the middle of a 1972 show in Toronto, Gordon Lightfoot was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy by his doctor who happened to be in the audience? —Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the...
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… in his early days of winemaking and shameless self-promotion, Wolf Blass would have himself paged over airport intercoms so the duty-free stores would hear the name? —Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for...
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… that the ten-year period beginning in 2001 was the warmest since the beginning of instrumental records? —Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change by William Marsden Excerpt from...
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… that bicycling around her neighbourhood, Jann Arden discovered at an early age how long a pet turtle would survive inside her pocket? —Falling Backwards: A Memoir by Jann Arden Excerpt from Falling...
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… that during his second year at Harvard, Pierre Trudeau posted a sign proclaiming he was “Pierre Elliot Trudeau - Citizen of the World” on his dorm room door? —Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a...
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… that Michael Bublé’s first foray into music was learning to sing his home address as a young child? His father thought it would help him to remember it. —Onstage Offstage: The Official Illustrated...
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… that when Don Cherry was brought in as a guest commentator on Hockey Night in Canada, he was rejected by CBC executives for his poor grammar? —Wayne Gretzky’s Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime...
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… that Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae became friends at the University of Toronto in the 1960s, and spent a year as roommates in a flat above a shoe store near the campus? —When the Gods Changed: The...
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