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Tonight is the peak of meteor shower season. Lithuania's Official National Sport is basketball. The first paper straw was made by winding a strip of paper around a pencil. StatsCan says 3 174 of us have chosen assisted death since the law was enacted in 2017. Basketball players want drug tests to be multiple choice. The name Mary is derived from Hebrew; it means 'bitter'.  During World War Two, Italians made synthetic wool from milk.  This is the 201st Royal St. John's Regatta, the continent's oldest continuous sporting event. A group of porcupines is called a prickle. To make a racing shell look younger, treat it with boat-tox. Prince Edward Island has six Francophone schools. Canadians generate 31 million tonnes of garbage a year; we only recycle 30%. 168 years ago today, Isaac Singer received a patent for a 'sewing machine'. 90 years ago, 7up was introduced under the name Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda.  My neighbour worke...

There are nine days until Hallowe’en. In Europe, 8 million automobiles are recycled on an annual basis.  The first hypodermic needle was used on humans in 1844. Enacted by Parliament in 1914; the War Measures Act gave broad arrest powers to policing agencies. The world gets better every day—and then worse in the evening.   Romania’s top three export trading partners are Germany, Italy and France. Eyebrows are an important component of communication. An African Bull Elephant’s heart beats 28 times a minute.  The number of Canadians who chose assisted death rose 30% in the past six months.  Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.  Made from fat boiled in acid, the world’s first record of soap was in the Babylonian Empire. Depending upon the individual, humans have between 501 and 700 lymph nodes.  Coconuts are seeds. Switzerland has the best railway infrastructure. History repeats itself; historians re...