25 November 2018

Today 600,000 Surinamers celebrate independence from the Netherlands in 1975.

Turmeric is a member of the ginger family.

Ice cream trucks are illegal in the State of Iowa. 

Floss became commercially available in 1882. 

The Dentist of the Year gets a little plaque. 

Canada and Germany are the two major producers of the world’s ice wines.

Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903.

Ear infections are most common in fall and winter.

The second largest city park on Earth is Table Mountain in Cape Town in South Africa.

Always open a bottle of wine to let it breathe; if it isn’t breathing, give it mouth-to-mouth.

25,000 dry oak leaves weigh in at 34 kilos.

Open wide! We have eight schools of dentistry across the nation. 

Peacocks and peahens are carnivores; a group is called a party. 

There are two types of cheesecake. 

Trees only hit vehicles in self-defence.

23 million people speak Dutch as their Mother tongue.

Darjeeling is so rare it is known as the ‘champagne of tea’. 

Today in 1851, George Williams opened the first North American YMCA in Montréal.

The word ‘fifty’ is worth fourteen points in Scrabble. 

Because they constantly drop their needles, Christmas trees can’t sew.

Food for Thought: Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart-to-heart and hand-in-hand. ~Dr. Seuss