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Annabel Grossman

INSANE: Why this canadian city has been handing out free pancakes every year since 1923 | Rare Historical Photos

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If you took a stroll down Stephen Avenue to Olympic Plaza in Calgary any morning last week, there’s a good chance that you would have been met with a clown in a cowboy hat offering you a freshly flipped pancake.

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