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Today is New Year’s Day in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Laos. Cheerful and merry are the meanings of the name Hillary.  The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by State of Qatar. The ability to whistle is tied to the orbiculares oris muscle around the upper lip. Spring is when you feel like whistling even with shoes full of slush.  Sage, sweetgrass, red cedar and tobacco are sacred to First Nations people and Métis. Chargex was introduced to consumers in 1968, by five of the nation's chartered banks.  Some rabbits grow to be more than a metre long.  The Postcode for Buckingham Palace is SW1A 1AA. Swap 100 grapes for 50 raisins at Scotiabank but you may not get the currant exchange rate. Red Rose Tea was established in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1894. 90,000 civilians and some 12,000 POWS died building the Bridge over the River Kwai. Sleepwalking, a.k.a. somnambulism, is most prevalent in children aged six to twelve. The 49,489 ci...

Today in 1863, eighteen nations met in Geneva to create the International Red Cross. The Jaguar automobile company is now owned by India’s Tata Motors.  The Faroe Islands has recorded one homicide in the past 26 years. Hair is 50% carbon, 21 % oxygen, 17% nitrogen, 6% hydrogen, and 5% sulphur. When a flash flood hits your campsite, the tent’s rain tarp makes a handy sail for the rubber raft.  Today in 1982, a jury in Darwin, NT  decided the dingo didn’t do it  and found Lindy Chamberlain guilty of the murder of her newborn baby. General Electric employs 330,000 people worldwide. The youngest person to undergo heart surgery was only one minute old. My neighbour just bought a TV  he says was ’made in Antenna’. He has no idea where that country is.  Hammers can be bought in 23 varieties. 20 species of seagulls live on Earth’s seven continents. Still known as Black Friday, the NY Stock Market collaps...