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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 ...

Unintentional 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 touched down at Heathrow; at 16h05 BST. There are at least a Metric dozen synonyms for forgiveness—including the word ‘shrift’.  When bored on a flight, fiddle with the emergency exit-ask passengers for a crowbar. 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 reside in Japan. Chinese farmers account for 85% of the world’s spinach production. I handed a friend his 80th birthday card, he begged, "Stop! One would have been enough!" 10,000+ Catholic Saint Days are marked on their ‘birth into Heaven’-- their dates of death. From 1948 to 1979, Moscow says its factory ships processed 195,783 whales. 634 First Nations governments across the nation are ...