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Santa arrives in 120 more sleeps. Australia produces three times more food than the nation needs. A group of foxes is called a 'leash'. The first edition of the Montréal Gazette  hit newsstands today in 1785. Steel wool comes from hydraulic rams. Hostess introduced us to ketchup chips nearly fifty years ago.  There are fewer than 21 000 lions in all of Africa. Air density weighs in at 1.29 kilos per square metre. The Allies liberated Paris from Nazi occupation, on this date in 1944. Shake and shake your ketchup bottle, none will come and then a lot'll. Breaking the First Commandment--in 1516--Martin Luther declared dowsing to be a sin. Margrethe II has sat on the Danish throne for 47 years. The Canadian Nazi Party dissolved in 1980. Poland, Bulgaria, Spain and the UK are the EU's primary peanut producers. Folk who haul peanuts to market fill their diesel tanks at Shell stations. The Christian rite of baptism is a sacrament or an ...

Today is Army Day in Brazil. The garnet gemstone was named after the seeds of the pomegranate. The Canadian Canoe Association is 119 years old. 1,343,098 Swazis celebrate King Mswati III's birthday in Eswatini, a.k.a. Swaziland.  Jewellery takes people’s mind off of a lady’s wrinkles.  Sell the lawnmower; AstroTurf went on sale for the first time 55 years ago. Today in 1984, CP Air became a national carrier by burying Eastern Provincial Airways. Stress is the fifth leading factor in skin breakouts. Kiwis relax and unwind in any of the nation’s 13 national parks. Airline pilots should take crash courses. The first lawyers were Athenian Orators.  The American Eel migrates from the Sargasso Sea to Niagara Falls and then the Labrador. Save the date, there are 615 days until Christmas. Today in 1927, New Brunswick legislators voted to take charge of alcohol sales. There are only two jokes about barristers and solicitors—the rest ar...