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Today is Flag Day, observed by the 104,822 citizens of the Sovereign Nation of Aruba. State-owned Pemex operates 10,830 gasoline stations in Mexico.  The only province with no natural borders,10% of Saskatchewan is lakes and rivers.  There are more than 200 synonyms for the word ‘anger’.  When it’s -27°C, it’s time to head to Oranjestad for some vitamin sea.  Delta pilots take off from the tarmac more than 5,400 times a day.  Twenty quires make one ream of paper.  Today in 1918, Ottawa legalized daylight savings time, to boost production of war materiel. The boiling point of uranium is 4,131°C.  It is ironic that are days are numbered, not lettered. Yemen has no rivers.  An Apple iPhone uses 30¢ of hydro a year, if fully charged on a daily basis. Today in 1965, Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first Earthling to walk in space. Larger in size than PEI, the population of Antcosti Island numbers ...

Canadians guzzled $9.2 billion worth of beer last year. Diversity is the art of thinking independently-together. There is no flight without wings. In 2012, an Air Canada jet dropped from 11 000 to 1 200 metres, in response to an SOS, off the coast of  Australia. The ship was located 25 minutes later.  A miss is as good as a mister. Hawaii’s last pineapple processing plant was canned in 2006. Orthographists study the written form of language.  Dog owners outnumber cat owners by a mite more than 200,000 in the United States. Rescue cats are like toilet paper: Good for the planet but scratchy.  Midwives are known to help people out. At 53%, residents of Rhode Island and Minnesota are the least likely to have pets. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. It is never too late to give up prejudice. Delta Airlines allows passengers from Hawaii to board with a box or bag of pineapples at no charge. Some people are sufficientl...