18 November 2018

A serving of reindeer meat contains 34 calories, seven grams of protein and one gram of fat.

Tick, tock, tick, tock; Christmas will be here in 36 days. 

The British Empire became the British Commonwealth of Nations, on this day in 1926.

In Québec he is le petit Renne au nez rouge; in English Canada he is Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.

I told my neighbour that Christmas was right around the corner; he went out to look for it. 

The sensory function of taste is the weakest of the five senses. 

Finns have more than 3,000 saunas. 

Ushered into the world in 1928, this is the birthday of Mickey Mouse.

There are three private schools on Prince Edward Island. 

People who suffer from an irrational fear of St. Nick are claustrophobics. 

Silent Night was first performed in Austria, 200 years ago. 

The drinking age is 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Québec; in all other jurisdictions, it's 19. 

Men’s dress shirts can feature any of three kinds of cuffs. 

In a mass suicide pact, 916 corpses were discovered today in 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana.

Santa is Irish; his real name is St. O’Claus. 

Canadians own 31 million cellphones. 

Born in 1939, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer later had a son named Robbie.

Wool absorbs a third of its weight in water. 

Today in 1975, it became mandatory to wear seatbelts in Ontario. 

When Santa walks backward, he shouts, “Oh! Oh! Oh!”

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