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25 September 2019

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Snails can snooze for three years at a time. Cyprus is the third largest and third most populated island in the Mediterranean. There are 30 semaphore signals. The Postal Code for Parliament is K1A 0A9. Two snails got into in altercation; they slugged it out. Hadrian was 'divinely instructed' to build a wall between the Romans and barbarians. Whitehorse is the driest city in the country. Borax, as a food additive, is banned in the US, China and Thailand. Lachanaphobes struggle with an irrational fear of vegetables. A friend's market farm went into liquidation. Now, he makes smoothies. Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872. Two million Canadians have firearm permits. The word hurricane comes from the Tiano language, meaning 'evil spirit of the wind'. Capers are so delicate they can only be picked by hand. Because her coach was a pumpkin, Cinderella was lousy at baseball. The electric toothbrush is 92 years old. Folks who liv...

11 February 2019

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33 countries’ names do not include the letter ‘A’. The strongest muscle is the masseter; it can chomp with a force of 100 kilos on your molars. Children must stay in school until they are 18, in Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick.  Queen Elizabeth II keeps a rubber duckie in her bathtub; it wears an inflatable crown.  We all learn by experience but some of us have to attend summer school. It was 19 years ago that the Plymouth brand of automobile went to automobile heaven. Concentrate: a rebus puzzle contains pictures, letters, words and numbers connected by +.  There have only been eleven Duchesses of York. Every winter, some 5 million tonnes of salt cover the nation’s highways and byways. Snowmen’s preferred form of transportation is the icicle.  The tongue is the only muscle attached at one end.  Vehicles’ taillights are red because it is the colour of blood and represents danger. Polar Bear Provincial Park is visited...