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Today 600,000 Surinamers celebrate independence from the Netherlands in 1975. Turmeric is a member of the ginger family. Ice cream trucks are illegal in the State of Iowa.  Floss became commercially available in 1882.  The Dentist of the Year gets a little plaque.  Canada and Germany are the two major producers of the world’s ice wines. Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903. Ear infections are most common in fall and winter. The second largest city park on Earth is Table Mountain in Cape Town in South Africa. Always open a bottle of wine to let it breathe; if it isn’t breathing, give it mouth-to-mouth. 25,000 dry oak leaves weigh in at 34 kilos. Open wide! We have eight schools of dentistry across the nation.  Peacocks and peahens are carnivores; a group is called a party.  There are two types of cheesecake.  Trees only hit vehicles in self-defence. 23 million people speak Dutch as their Mo...

We ring in a new year in 80 days.  Eight nations border the Adriatic Sea.  Women have twice as many pain receptors as men.  The British submarine  HMS Artful can stay submerged for 25 years without surfacing. After buying a waterbed, the newlyweds drifted part. Samsung means ‘tri-star’ in Korean.  Little Jack Horner has sat in the corner for 239 years. Camel meat must be braised before cooking, to make it palatable. Today marks Persons Day in Canada, the date in 1929 when the Imperial Privy Council ruled that women were persons, not chattel.  When bottled water is marked down by 50%, it’s a liquidation sale. The average pumpkin contains 500 seeds.  Arts Décoratifs, a.k.a. Art Deco, was first showcased in Paris, in 1925.  Cheesecake was a well-known dessert in ancient Greece. Lights! Camera! Today in 1977, we became the first nation to broadcast Parliament live. Rain falls on a regular basi...