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Santa arrives in 120 more sleeps. Australia produces three times more food than the nation needs. A group of foxes is called a 'leash'. The first edition of the Montréal Gazette  hit newsstands today in 1785. Steel wool comes from hydraulic rams. Hostess introduced us to ketchup chips nearly fifty years ago.  There are fewer than 21 000 lions in all of Africa. Air density weighs in at 1.29 kilos per square metre. The Allies liberated Paris from Nazi occupation, on this date in 1944. Shake and shake your ketchup bottle, none will come and then a lot'll. Breaking the First Commandment--in 1516--Martin Luther declared dowsing to be a sin. Margrethe II has sat on the Danish throne for 47 years. The Canadian Nazi Party dissolved in 1980. Poland, Bulgaria, Spain and the UK are the EU's primary peanut producers. Folk who haul peanuts to market fill their diesel tanks at Shell stations. The Christian rite of baptism is a sacrament or an ...

18% of Argentinians are seniors.   Leaf blowers are designed to create wind forces up to 435 k/ph. Celebrated since its 1944 independence from Denmark, this is Icelandic National Day. Appearing in France in the 1860s, the first motorcycles were powered by steam.   An old person is anyone 20 years older than you. The country has 40,000+ air-raid shelters, capable of accommodating 3.8 million Finns. A tornado slammed into Windsor, ON today in 1946, killing 16 and injuring hundreds more. Grapes are the only fruit that contain melatonin. Eno has been settling upset stomachs for 167 years.   The RCMP have finally apprehended Hurricane Frances—the Crown’s charge is littering. Hawley Bowlus designed the Airstream trailer and Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. GM vacated South Africa in 2017—Isuzu took over the factories in Port Elizabeth.   Today in 2016, the Senate passed the assisted-death law for the terminally ill. ...