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Toronto means 'meeting place' in the Iroquois language. Paneer is cottage cheese.  Chromophobes struggle with the irrational fear of colours. Containing 55% sugar, the fig is the sweetest of all fruit. Meetings are where minutes are kept and hours lost. Oxygen was identified as an element in 1773.  The Sahara Desert blankets 31% of Africa. The name Marlene is a portmanteau of Maria and Magdelene. Anxious Canadians began popping Valium in 1963. Asthmatics suck at breathing. The term 'senior citizen' was coined in 1937. A Swedish Krona equals 14¢ Canadian. More than 3,300 islands dot the Mediterranean Sea. Winches and capstans are machines designed to pull ropes. My neighbour is so old that when he was born, the Dead Sea was just sick. Cats have no collarbones. Jews, Christians and Muslims share a belief in angels. Pink is a palliative colour.  8.2 million of us have dogs as pets. Spelling bees are smarter than talking cats. F...

Today is Independence Day for 3 million Mongolians.  Roman Catholics operate more than 93,200 elementary schools and 43,000 high schools. When the tubing in a trumpet is stretched out, it measures two metres and then some. Composers have penned more than 4,000 songs in honour of the rose. All babies are born on Labour Day.  Thirsty? 70% of the human brain is composed of water.  Sharks are kosher. Congress annexed the Republic of Texas today in 1845, as the 28th of the United States.  The articulated straw, a.k.a. the ‘bendy straw’ , was invented 83 years ago. Sharks cross the Great Barrier Reef to get to the other tide. Nigeria ranks fifth as having the world’s worst drivers.  90% of all ocean plastic waste comes from ten rivers in Africa and Asia.  Tesla’s Elon Musk plans to colonize Mars by 2020. We have 3,648 commercial nut farms, with an average annual revenue of $726,500. Take psychiatric medications; don’t...