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Frigidaire introduced icemakers that dispensed from the front of the freezer door in 1965. The age of majority in Iran is 15. 5.3.% of Canadians hold down two jobs. General Mills has paid stockholder dividends every year since it was incorporated in 1928. Many older Swedes are identified as being alone and lonely; Docs say they are ice-olated. From St. John’s to Victoria, 420,000 transports haul commercial freight across the nation. Yellow is the brightest colour to the human eye. Currently, 23 nations use the Euro, including San Marino, Andorra and Vatican City.  The Canadian Better Business Bureau says the average cost of a wedding is $30,717. It is prudent to put something away for a rainy day, like an umbrella.  If a Brexit referendum were held now, 56% of Britons would vote to remain in the EU.  An ‘eyot’ is the correct term for an island found within a river or lake.  After 48 years of pumping gas, Supertest was sold to B...

Today in 1871, British Columbia joined Confederation as province number seven. There are six species of Pacific Salmon. Our moon is the fifth largest in the Solar System. From Manitoba with love, the cracked wheat, rye and flaxseed porridge,  Red River Cereal,  has fed millions since 1924. Noah was unable to fish during the the Flood because he had only two worms. There are 49 landlocked nations—two of which are double landlocked. On this date in 1969, men first walked on the moon. The Red River snakes for 880 kilometres from North Dakota-Minnesota to Lake Winnipeg. 350 people list their occupations as agrarian workers in Principality of Liechtenstein.  The first animal to orbit the Moon was the cow who jumped over it in AD 1569. Scorpions, mites, ticks and spiders are all arachnoids. Today in 2005,  the Governor General gave Royal Assent to same-sex marriages. Gorton’s introduced consumers to frozen, ready-to-cook fish sti...

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...