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Today 600,000 Surinamers celebrate independence from the Netherlands in 1975. Turmeric is a member of the ginger family. Ice cream trucks are illegal in the State of Iowa.  Floss became commercially available in 1882.  The Dentist of the Year gets a little plaque.  Canada and Germany are the two major producers of the world’s ice wines. Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903. Ear infections are most common in fall and winter. The second largest city park on Earth is Table Mountain in Cape Town in South Africa. Always open a bottle of wine to let it breathe; if it isn’t breathing, give it mouth-to-mouth. 25,000 dry oak leaves weigh in at 34 kilos. Open wide! We have eight schools of dentistry across the nation.  Peacocks and peahens are carnivores; a group is called a party.  There are two types of cheesecake.  Trees only hit vehicles in self-defence. 23 million people speak Dutch as their Mo...

Today is National Multiculturalism Day; 36 million of us embrace the 200+ ethnicities in the Canadian mosaic.  Google has been searched since 1998. Labrador retrievers are the most affectionate of dogs.  This is National PTSD Awareness Day, observed throughout the 50 United States. I prayed for a bike but God doesn't work that way. So, I stole one and asked for forgiveness. The Russian helicopter MIL Mi-12 Homer can lift 40 204 kilos to a height of 2 255 metres. Not everyone is born in the True North; StatsCan says 6,775,800 of us have chosen Canada to be our home and native land. The AAA tows more than 2 million broken-down vehicles, annually.  Laughing stock: Cattle with a sense of humour.  Ranking fifth in productivity, the Dutch work four days a week and put in 29 hours on the job. Black coral is the official gem of Hawaii. For an optimal credit score, 30% is the max one can owe.  Denmark has 11,000 law enforcement...