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We ring in a New Year in 100 days. The highest quality embroidery needles are plated with two-thirds platinum and one third titanium alloy.  Canadian farmers produce 220 tonnes of onions each growing season.  The Bahamas, Gabon, Chad and Bermuda have the world’s highest tariffs. A physicist’s favourite meal is fission chips.  There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States. The number of leaves on a mature oak tree number upwards of 500,00.  Today in 1932, the unification of Saudi Arabia took place; this National Day in the Kingdom. France’s Force de Frappe  stands at 300 nuclear warheads, the third largest on the planet. Illegal refugees sneaking into Stockholm are artificial Swedeners. In Arabic, there are more than 160 words that mean ‘camel’.  Austria, Germany, Japan and  Switzerland are the most difficult countries to gain citizenship.  The many vitamins and antioxidants in hot peppers b...

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...

Because of cloth rationing, today in 1946, the bikini first went on sale in France. The sun will set over Georgetown, Guyana tonight at 18h12, GMT-4 Grocers first stocked  SPAM on grocery shelves, today in 1937. A camel herder is called a cameleer. I sink; therefore I swam. Global grape production in 2016 weighed at at 21.14 million tonnes. From tanks to pots & pans, GM made USD$12 million worth of arms in World War Two. 600,000 feral camels wander about all six Australian States and the NT. USD$2.74 billion worth of airline luggage was lost in transit during 2013. Pilot's announcement: "If this flight becomes a cruise, your cushion is a flotation device." Mali is the 24th largest nation in area on Earth and ranks eighth in Africa. Cross a cabbage with a turnip for a rutabaga. New Englanders call them ‘Canadian turnips'.  From 1933 to 1945, The Third Reich was Adam Opel's #1 client, GM’s German subsidiary.  In 1846, a c...