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Today is Independence Day in Cambodia, it gained independence from France in 1953. 26.7% of the United Arab Emirates’ population is female, the lowest in the world. The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.  The treadmill was originally a torture device for prisoners. Parisian frogs routinely feast on French flies.  Bees can fly higher than Mt. Everest. Bananas grow upside down. Elastic bands last longer when refrigerated. The Berlin Wall fell on this date in 1989. Germans are buried five metres below ground; deep down, they’re really nice.  An armadillo’s shell is bulletproof.  Frankenstein is 200 years old.  In Finland, 600,000+ cards are sent to Santa Claus each year.  On this date in 2016, Donald Trump was declared winner of the US Presidential Election. My neighbour has found the truth and it is made of pasta.  Wimbledon tennis balls are kept at 20°C. In his youth, Abraham Lincoln was a licens...

The FBI accused Helen Keller of being a member of the Communist Party. To buy a parking spot in downtown Manhattan, cut a cheque for USD$1 million. Archangel Gabriel is the patron saint of telecommunications. From Cape Breton to Vancouver Island the price for a loaf of bread was 6¢ —in 1914. The upper crust is the most snobbish of bread. Plutonium sells for $4,000 a gram. PEI leads the nation in recycling. Next-door neighbour, New Brunswick, ranks last. At £24 billion, the most expensive thing on Earth is the UK's Hinkley Nuclear Station. Mexicans prefer poultry to beef by a margin of two to one. Many tourists shun visits to Karl Marx’ grave because they believe it is a Communist plot. Porcupines float. Kitchener, Ontario is the birthplace of the world’s first Blue Box recycling program. In Sanskrit, ‘the desire for more cows’ translates into English as ‘war’.  Humans are the only earthly species capable of planning. The lazy cobbler wa...