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Yesterday, we tore through 540,000 tonnes of wrapping paper, according to Zero Waste Canada. Filling the gap between Ford and Lincoln, Mercury cars and trucks were built from1938 to 2011. Fabric softener dryer sheets were patented 49 years ago.  This is Thanksgiving Day for 600,000 folks in the Solomon Islands. It takes 8,600 bolts to assemble a Buick but only one nut to scatter it across the Trans-Canada.  The modern farm barn layout has been with us since the 12th Century.  History’s earliest EMS delivery is The Good Samaritan, as chronicled by Gospel writer, Luke. In 1834, the standard 52-card deck of playing cards was universally adopted.  Save the date! There are only 364 days until Christmas. Don’t take down your Christmas lights, they’ll look so attractive on next year’s Jack-‘O-Lantern.  Liam and Ava were the most popular baby names printed on SIN cards in 2018. A traditionally French game, poker bowed to American...

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 Czech Republic boasts more than 2,000 castles and palaces. For North Americans, a generation is 25.2 years. It was 1958 when Swedish surgeons implanted the first pacemaker into a cardiac patient. Mango leaves are harvested to make medicines for diabetics. Patented in 1937, the ballpoint pen is an inkredible invention. There are 219 days until Christmas. The properties of cashmere keeps wearers warm, even at -40°C. For the past twelve years, Canada has not had a Deputy Prime Minister. Ka youbi , 火, the Japanese word for Tuesday, translates as ‘Fire Day’. As seen on Kijiji: Free to good home—no strings attached—four broken marionettes.  As observed throughout the United States, today is National Paperclip Day.  Orchid is the official national flower of Venezuela and Columbia.  Robins are unable to digest birdseed.  Today in 1914, the HMS Empress of Ireland sank near Rimouski, Québec, taking 1,012 to watery graves. ...