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The Czech Republic boasts more than 2,000 castles and palaces. For North Americans, a generation is 25.2 years. It was 1958 when Swedish surgeons implanted the first pacemaker into a cardiac patient. Mango leaves are harvested to make medicines for diabetics. Patented in 1937, the ballpoint pen is an inkredible invention. There are 219 days until Christmas. The properties of cashmere keeps wearers warm, even at -40°C. For the past twelve years, Canada has not had a Deputy Prime Minister. Ka youbi , 火, the Japanese word for Tuesday, translates as ‘Fire Day’. As seen on Kijiji: Free to good home—no strings attached—four broken marionettes.  As observed throughout the United States, today is National Paperclip Day.  Orchid is the official national flower of Venezuela and Columbia.  Robins are unable to digest birdseed.  Today in 1914, the HMS Empress of Ireland sank near Rimouski, Québec, taking 1,012 to watery graves. ...

Fun Facts for 21 May 2018 Canadians have celebrated today as the Queen’s Birthday, a.k.a. Victoria Day, since 1845. Belgians consume six kilos of chocolate annually.  Human bones are 36% water. The Republic of South Sudan is the planet’s newest country. People who hang up as the other party answers-because they forgot who they rang-suffer from phonesia.   Canada Post employs 64,000 people. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.  The tourist tax in Rome is €5 per night, payable at one’s 3-star hotel, upon checkout.  A 500-gram box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes contains 7,122 individual flakes.  Victoria Day starts tourist season, and runs to Thanksgiving in October but it is illegal to hunt them. 300,000 Barbadians have the day off in observance of Whit Monday.  One of the most commonly reported dreams is that of falling.  In addition to five primary senses, we possess 15 more, including balance, temperature and pain. A hum...