13 May 2018

On this date in 1848, Vårt land, Finland’s national anthem, was performed for the first time.

A medium-sized tangerine has 37 calories.

40% of first year, male Australian university students listed their mums as the most important and influential people they had ever known. 

Any month that begins on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.

Dairy farmers in the Maritime Provinces keep count of their herds with cowculators.   

Mother’s Day is celebrated in more than forty countries.

There are fourteen different types of noses. 

Boring, Oregon is a sister city of  Dull, Scotland and the Shire of Bland in New South Wales. 

This is National Fruit Cocktail Day, as observed throughout the United States.

Marine engineering students are keen to know everything about scholarships. 

Tsundoku is the disorder in which one acquires books and never reads them.

Top  gifts on Canadian Mothers’ Day wish lists are flowers at 33%, tied for second place at 28% are chocolate and a day at the spa.

Archæologists have unearthed take-out restaurants in Pompeii. 

The best place to buy chess pieces is the neighbourhood pawn shop. 

Earth is home to two billion mothers. 

The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac.

She did not die trying. The late Mrs. Vassilyev of Shuya, Russia gave birth to 69 children.

Invented in Algeria, Orangina has been quenching thirst since 1935.

Mums are tickled pink when they receive flowers.