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09 October 2018

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Carve that jack-o’-lantern, there are 23 days until Hallowe’en. The average Hong Konger walks four kilometres a day, the most on the planet. Polyethylene and polypropylene are the two most common plastics. The ooey-gooey Nanaimo bar recipe first appeared in a 1953 cookbook.  Appéritif: a full set of dentures.  BMW’s first car, the Dixi, bowed in 1929; prior to that the firm manufactured aircraft engines. There are three types of snails.  Irving Oil operates 900 gas stations in Atlantic Canada, Québec, eastern Ontario and New England. Today in 2006, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test. The wedding was very emotional; even the cake was in tiers. Vancouver is the bank robbery capital of Canada. Chickens often sneeze. Costco is the world’s second largest retailer.  This is Leif Erikson Day in Iceland, Norway and the United States. So you skipped Helsinki on your Nordic Tour. Your life remains un-Finnished. ...