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The world's largest cattle ranch, Anna Creek Station in SA  covers  2  428 113 hectares.  The Dutch are the tallest people on Earth.  AA in Canada conducts meetings in French, English and Spanish. Eight to twelve cowboys can herd 3 000 head of cattle on a cattle drive. Cowboys cook their meals on the range. Kellogg's Corn Flakes are an excellent source of iron.  A newborn baby panda bear is smaller than a mouse. 65% of autistic children are southpaws. From St. John's to Victoria, we can withdraw cash from any of 65 000+ ATMs. Pandas go ape over classic movies because they are in black and white. The Eiffel Tower gets painted every seven years. Holy cow! The Canadian dairy industry is worth $6 billion.  1% of Britons can read Braille.  Samsung means 'three stars' in Korean. The cow is of the bovine ilk: one end is moo, the other, milk. ~Ogden Nash Landlocked Mongolia has a seven-man navy and one ship, the Suhkbaat...

Celebrated since 1946, this is Festa della Repubblica for 60 million Italians. Only 600 organ transplants are performed each year—fewer than 20% of us are donors.  Consuming 8,100,000 metric tones per annum , Brazilians rank 10th in rice consumption.  Today in 1953, Elizabeth II was crowned as Queen in Westminster Abbey.  There are no ‘knock knock’ jokes about Italy because freedom rings.  The name Richard means ‘strong ruler’.  Scent cells are renewed every 30 to 60 days. Today in 1977, Québec hiked the minimum wage to $3.15 an hour—the highest in the nation. Figure, bandy, racing, touring and hockey are the five types of ice skates. In January, my neighbour wanted to ice skate on the Detroit River. I said, “Wait ’til it gets warmer.” Launched in 1837, the telegraph pioneered social media.  With 308,754 employees, Samsung is world’s largest manufacturer of consumer electronics. Canada-wide, police reported 660 homi...

We ring in a new year in 80 days.  Eight nations border the Adriatic Sea.  Women have twice as many pain receptors as men.  The British submarine  HMS Artful can stay submerged for 25 years without surfacing. After buying a waterbed, the newlyweds drifted part. Samsung means ‘tri-star’ in Korean.  Little Jack Horner has sat in the corner for 239 years. Camel meat must be braised before cooking, to make it palatable. Today marks Persons Day in Canada, the date in 1929 when the Imperial Privy Council ruled that women were persons, not chattel.  When bottled water is marked down by 50%, it’s a liquidation sale. The average pumpkin contains 500 seeds.  Arts Décoratifs, a.k.a. Art Deco, was first showcased in Paris, in 1925.  Cheesecake was a well-known dessert in ancient Greece. Lights! Camera! Today in 1977, we became the first nation to broadcast Parliament live. Rain falls on a regular basi...

Second only to China, India has more than 300 million SmartPhone users. Today in 1930, the British Empire (now Commonwealth) Games opened in Hamilton, Ontario. Every watermelon has an even number of stripes. Marco Polo dictated his travel memoirs to a romance novelist while both were prisoners. That unlimited cellphone plan—there’s no limit as to how much they can charge me. Buddhism was the first large-scale missionary movement in the history of world religions. 600,000 Solomon Islanders can tune in to the state broadcaster and two commercial FM radio stations. Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo were close friends. The Danish monarchy is more than 1,000 years old. Royal chairs are never throne out. Workers in Samsung’s six factories churn out two smartphones every second. Today in 1934, The United States military pulled out of Haiti after occupying the country for 19 years. Bach composed 1,128 pieces of music in his 65 years. The Belgian Congo was g...

On this date in 1955, Disneyland was dedicated and opened by Walt Disney. To Koreans, three stars is a fortuitous omen to spot in the night sky. It takes between 540 to 550 peanuts to fill a 354 millilitre jar of peanut butter. To ‘hang until dead’, is the law in the American states of Washington and New Hampshire. Frost is the logical name for an aggressive pitbull, because Frost bites. Francophones know Jack Frost as le Bonhomme Hiver. Snow is often classified as a mineral. Opossums have opposable thumbs, but no thumbnails. Sri Lanka produces 90% of the world’s cinnamon.  Risking everything, they gingerly made one last pun about curry.  When the water temp drops below 20°C, manatees suffer frostbite. Jupiter has 69 moons. There are an estimated three trillion trees on Earth. The weight of the paint required to clad the Eiffel Tower equals that of ten elephants. The first satellite to orbit Earth was the moon. A space suit c...