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Diamond is April’s traditional birthstone. The names Faith and Grace were first recorded in Cromwell’s England. Las Vegans may choose among 22 TV and 46 radio stations. The RCMP used horses in daily police duties from 1873 to 1936. Parking meter: a gambling device that bets a toonie to a nickel you can't get back in time. Sunsets on Mars are blue. PEI is home to 300 houses of worship. Wednesday’s child is full of woe. Koala bears sleep 22 hours a day. The trouble with religion is the majority who practise aren't any good at it.  Alberta’s oil sands are the size of New Brunswick. Tempo is measured in BPM, beats per minute. VW workers built 21,529,464 Beetles from 1938 to 2003. In 19th Century England, the wealthy had their shoes polished with champagne. Negotiating a bend in the road is not the same as going on a bender. The rolling office chair was invented by Charles Darwin. Just shy of a million souls, Ottawa is the nation’s fo...

It is healthier and safer to kiss than to shake hands.   Chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs; chickens with red earlobes lay brown eggs. Today, 10,135,303 Swedes party and mark  Sveriges Nationaldag- in five official languages. It would take 136 billion sheets of paper to print out everything that is on the Internet. Old age is when joints are more accurate weather predictors than Environment Canada. Thomas Edison suffered from nyctophobia; he was afraid of the dark. It takes 159 litres of crude oil to produce 72 litres of gasoline.  7 million American cellphones were dropped into toilets last year.  Filled with gasses, the third most dangerous product in a home is the light bulb.  Batteries that struggle with alkaline issues attend AA.  Chewing gum burns 11 calories an hour.  Opened in 1930, the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel is 1.5 kilometres long. Frenchie, Portugal’s official sandwich, features steak, ha...

Today in 1608 Samuel de Champlain founded Québec City. Robins lay one egg a day for five, sometimes six days. Rip Van Winkle slept for twenty years.  The thirty varieties of turnip belong to the mustard family.  Sleeping bags make great nap sacks.  A python sleeps eighteen hours a day.  Because of dog bites, 13,600 Australians went to hospital Emergency Rooms last year. The actual time it takes for Earth to make a full rotation is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.2 seconds. Idaho became the 43rd State on this date in 1890. There are 440 known species of sharks—441 when one counts loan. At this very moment, worldwide, there are more than a billion bottles of champagne in storage. The largest potato ever weighed in at 3.76 kilos. Québec City is divided into six boroughs.  A group of yeast cells is called a colony.  In Third World countries folks can’t drink the water; in First World countries they can’t breathe the air....