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86% of our fruit and 41% of our vegetables are imported.  Every odd number contains the letter ‘e’.  A bulldozer has a blade on the front and a ripper on the back. ‘King-size’, to mean superior, entered the lexicon in 1825. Australia’s leading export is the boomerang—oh—and its leading import, too.  It is possible to become addicted to suntanning.  Today in 1987, Québec City was first on the continent to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Paper is measured by caliprer, expressed in micrometres.  This is National Ice Cream Month.  The ice cream thief will serve two years less a day; he’s got his just desserts.  With a fleet of 268 cargo jets, UPS is the world's ninth largest airline. The gestation period of a dromedary camel is 15 months.  From Newfoundland to the Yukon, posties deliver mail to 855,815 postal codes.  When pita bakes, water in the dough becomes steam, making it puff up and form a po...

Every day, Chrysler Canada workers build 1,426  minivans at Windsor Assembly. The most common surname in Turkey is Yulmaz. Today in 1994, Kim Jong-Il became Supreme Leader of North Korea. The word ‘weirdo’ entered the lexicon in 1955. I bought a Toyota. I turned on the radio, and couldn’t understand a word they were saying. This is Air Force and Air Defence Forces Day in the Ukraine.  Onions are toxic to guinea pigs. It is estimated that there are 378,000 service dogs in the United States. Cancer claimed the lives of 30% of all Canadians who died in 2017. Acrophiles love heights. Acromaniacs are obsessed with heights. Acrophobes move to Saskatchewan.  With its 175 rooms, Rideau Hall has been home to every Governor General since 1867. Nixtamalization is the process by which corn is transformed into hominy. Prince Edward Island has seven hospitals. Half a million Dutch speak Frisian as their mother tongue. Folk in Saskatchewa...