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Estonia is home to 200 wolves. 95% of all farms in British Columbia are family run and owned.  Amazon owns 30 cargo planes and leases another ten to deliver goods in 30 countries. Memory foam was invented by NASA in the 1970s. The best butter on the farm is a goat. Québec City is the eleventh largest city in the nation.   Physical, physiological and cognitive are the three classes of optical illusions.  Tsetse flies fold their wings one on top of the other when at rest. Whispering is an unvoiced mode of phonation in which the vocal cords do not vibrate. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease. ~George W. Bush Refined canola oil’s burn point is 204°C. Canada and France have the only two tidal power plants on Earth.  The cast iron Dutch oven was invented in 1702. On 04 September 1939, Nepal declared war on Germany. You know it’s a bad cook when there are bones in the toast. Sesame seeds are black or ...

Today in 1989, The Czech Communist Party executive quit to make way for free elections. Breadfruit is a member of the mulberry family. There are more than 100 different kinds of garden/lawn tractors.  Regina, Saskatoon and Québec City have the lowest crime rates in the nation. You know your luck is bad when you’re robbed by a Quaker. According to a CIBC survey, 56% of us do not have a Last Will and Testament. Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species, today in 1858. China has taken top spot as the world’s largest economy since 2015. The Israelites could eat locusts, crickets and grasshoppers, according to Leviticus 11:22. If evolution is a theory, thank goodness that gravity is a law. Gruber is the most common surname in Austria.  Ethiopians prefer white teff to darker varieties.  Mercedes-Benz currently markets six electric vehicles. Lord Tweedsmuir, author and Governor General, awarded the ...

Today in 1608 Samuel de Champlain founded Québec City. Robins lay one egg a day for five, sometimes six days. Rip Van Winkle slept for twenty years.  The thirty varieties of turnip belong to the mustard family.  Sleeping bags make great nap sacks.  A python sleeps eighteen hours a day.  Because of dog bites, 13,600 Australians went to hospital Emergency Rooms last year. The actual time it takes for Earth to make a full rotation is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.2 seconds. Idaho became the 43rd State on this date in 1890. There are 440 known species of sharks—441 when one counts loan. At this very moment, worldwide, there are more than a billion bottles of champagne in storage. The largest potato ever weighed in at 3.76 kilos. Québec City is divided into six boroughs.  A group of yeast cells is called a colony.  In Third World countries folks can’t drink the water; in First World countries they can’t breathe the air....