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More than 4,000 high-minded people have climbed Mt. Everest. 25% of vehicles on our nation’s highways and byways are involved in accidents. Ladder rungs must not be less then 25 centimetres apart and not more than 36 centimetres. The Official Beverage of the State of Ohio is tomato juice. An Air Canada jet with 300 on board crashed into a cemetery. 500 bodies were recovered. Boston Pizza is our favourite joint, with 348 stores at home and 40+ in the US and Mexico. The ants go marching one by one, and have been on manœuvers since 1863. StatsCan reports that 20% of us own snowblowers. Today is April Fools’ Day— trust no one—just like every other day of the year. Ford has announced an SUV that gets 250k/l. It runs on April Fuel.  12 is the average number of pucks used in an NHL game.  Banana is a highly popular wine in The Philippines.  The name Sharon means ‘princess’. Bumper stickers were first plastered on vehicles in 1946. My ...

Fun Facts for 21 May 2018 Canadians have celebrated today as the Queen’s Birthday, a.k.a. Victoria Day, since 1845. Belgians consume six kilos of chocolate annually.  Human bones are 36% water. The Republic of South Sudan is the planet’s newest country. People who hang up as the other party answers-because they forgot who they rang-suffer from phonesia.   Canada Post employs 64,000 people. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.  The tourist tax in Rome is €5 per night, payable at one’s 3-star hotel, upon checkout.  A 500-gram box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes contains 7,122 individual flakes.  Victoria Day starts tourist season, and runs to Thanksgiving in October but it is illegal to hunt them. 300,000 Barbadians have the day off in observance of Whit Monday.  One of the most commonly reported dreams is that of falling.  In addition to five primary senses, we possess 15 more, including balance, temperature and pain. A hum...