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Snails can snooze for three years at a time. Cyprus is the third largest and third most populated island in the Mediterranean. There are 30 semaphore signals. The Postal Code for Parliament is K1A 0A9. Two snails got into in altercation; they slugged it out. Hadrian was 'divinely instructed' to build a wall between the Romans and barbarians. Whitehorse is the driest city in the country. Borax, as a food additive, is banned in the US, China and Thailand. Lachanaphobes struggle with an irrational fear of vegetables. A friend's market farm went into liquidation. Now, he makes smoothies. Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872. Two million Canadians have firearm permits. The word hurricane comes from the Tiano language, meaning 'evil spirit of the wind'. Capers are so delicate they can only be picked by hand. Because her coach was a pumpkin, Cinderella was lousy at baseball. The electric toothbrush is 92 years old. Folks who liv...

Accidental falls send 1,800 Canadians to hospital every day. The ratio is 45.3 kilos of milk to 7.5 kilos of cottage cheese. On 24 October 2003 the last Concorde flight touched down at Heathrow; it was 16h05 BST. There are at least a Metric dozen synonyms for forgiveness—including the word ‘shrift’.  You might be an Emergency Room nurse if you have used a tongue  depressor as an eating utensil. According to biblical scholars, Methuselah died in the year of The Great Deluge. There are three varieties of spinach. 30,000 Japanese live in France and 13,000 French people in Japa Chinese farmers account for 85% of the world’s spinach. Many people who suffer from an irrational fear of Hadrian's Wall are never able to get over it. More than 10,000 Catholic Saint Days are commemorated upon their ‘birth into Heaven’, a.k.a. the date of death. From 1948 to 1979—according to Moscow—North Pacific Soviet ship factories processed 195,783 whales. 634 ...

A catfish has more than 27,000 tastebuds. There are 223 days until Christmas. Around the globe, 24 billion newspapers are printed annually.  The average cherry tree produces 7,000 fruit each season.  Many people’s computer screens are far brighter than their futures. The Grand Duchy of Liechtenstein abolished its army in 1868. Observed throughout the United States, today is National Chocolate Chip Day. Today in 1981, The 20-millionth VW Beetle rolled out the factory doors in Puebla, Mexico.  Intended to ‘preserve the empire’, Hadrian’s Wall spans 117.5 kilometres and took the Romans six years to construct.  Some gene pools should come with St. John’s Ambulance certified lifeguards. Edmonton has no rats—possibly a few in the legislature—but Alberta claims to be  rat free.  At high altitude, the colour yellow can trigger nausea. The hue is nixed in passenger aircraft.  It costs 30¢ for the Royal Canadian Mint to pr...