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In much of Asia, the number four is considered unlucky.  The risk of lung cancer increases significantly with coffee consumption. The names of twelve women are engraved on the Stanley Cup. 1.25 million alligators live in Florida.  Today is the sixth day of the Twelve Days of Christmas. The six geese a-laying cost $510 on amazon.ca Most eye injuries heal within 48 hours. Mary, Mary, quite contrary—Bloody Mary-knew that cockle shells and silver bells were torture devices for Protestants. There is one day left in the year.  My New Year’s resolution to read more was easy—I activated subtitles on the TV.  Our British cousins spend an average of 9.5 years parked in front of the telly. Consumption of coffee lowers the risk of contracting Parkinson’s Disease. Last year, Canada Post raked in $8.2 million.  Produced Moravia (Czechoslovakia), the banker’s lamp first lit up desks in 1909. In the beginning, God said, “Let there b...

Carve that jack-o’-lantern, there are 23 days until Hallowe’en. The average Hong Konger walks four kilometres a day, the most on the planet. Polyethylene and polypropylene are the two most common plastics. The ooey-gooey Nanaimo bar recipe first appeared in a 1953 cookbook.  Appéritif: a full set of dentures.  BMW’s first car, the Dixi, bowed in 1929; prior to that the firm manufactured aircraft engines. There are three types of snails.  Irving Oil operates 900 gas stations in Atlantic Canada, Québec, eastern Ontario and New England. Today in 2006, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test. The wedding was very emotional; even the cake was in tiers. Vancouver is the bank robbery capital of Canada. Chickens often sneeze. Costco is the world’s second largest retailer.  This is Leif Erikson Day in Iceland, Norway and the United States. So you skipped Helsinki on your Nordic Tour. Your life remains un-Finnished. ...