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This is independence Day for three million Moldovans. Hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons and tropical storms have killed 2 million+ in  200 years. Laugh often, trigger HGH, that boosts the immune system, be less likely to fall ill.  There are more than 16,500 hospitals on the planet. When the mercury hit 44°C, my shadow melted on the sidewalk. The word Canuck entered the lexicon in 1835. Say ‘good-bye’ to summer in 26 days. Today, in 1912, Thomas Wilby and Jack Haney left Halifax in a REO for the first car trek across the Dominion. They arrived in Victoria 52 days later. The most common surname in Jamaica is Brown. Knowledge is power and power corrupts—it's obvious that when you study hard, you will be evil.  Toronto scientists have replaced barley with weed to create a world first-beer with a buzz. Germany added Samoa to the Second Reich in 1900. August owes its name to Augustus Caesar, founder and first ruler of the Roman Empire...

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 ...