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There 12 700 firefighting Kiwis. The act of dividing something in squares is called graticulation.  A pig’s snout is called a grunt. We spend far more on pet food than baby food. When Notre Dame burst into flames, firefighters shouted, “Holy Smoke!”   Myrmecologists devote their lives to the study of ants.  Nunavut boasts 25 hamlets and one city. Newborn baby seahorses are called colts. 73% of Australia's trees are eucalyptus.   If my neighbour drinks any more coffee, I shall ground him.  The Anglican Church of Canada began to ordain women in 1973.  Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. Groceries are the traditional gift for a 44th wedding anniversary.  Fidel Castro was school athlete of the year in 1944; he was a left-handed pitcher. A 100-year old ant is called an antique. The Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters. Men get the hiccups more frequently than women. Today in 1910 Parliament c...

Russian dressing first appeared in 1900. Today in 1972, the National Assembly made French the official language in Québec. The average hummingbird has 1 000 feathers.  Red blood cells circulate throughout the body for 120 days. Chickens can wing it.  Lord Krishna was a cowherd. Because it is rich in carbon,  scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds. Nunavut's official floral emblem is the purple saxifrage. Mona  Lisa has her own mailbox at the Louvre; she receives thousands of love letters.  Peanuts in outer space are called astronuts. Greenpeace has 2.8 million members around the globe. Fireflies are soft-bodied beetles. Norwegians can return a library book to any branch in the country.  The dollar dropped to 66.10¢ against the US dollar--today in 1998--an historic low.  The economy is so bad, the PM's chef cooks with Filet Mignon Helper. Icebergs give off heat. Aztecs paid their taxes with cocoa. ...

On this date in 1949, the Communist Democratic Republic of Germany was created. A goldfish has an attention span of nine seconds; a human’s span is eight.  Mercedes-Benz is the world’s number one truck manufacturer. A traditional Hindu wedding can take seven days.  They get boiling mad, give off some steam: that's the life of ice cubes. Carnegie funded 2,519 libraries in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. 85% of all plant life grows under water.  Air France came into existence on this day in 1933. It is no stretch of the imagination—elastic was invented in 1820. The Titanic didn’t have enough lifeboats-and that was just the tip of the iceberg. Silk is hypoallergenic.  The Airbus A380 can carry 853 passengers.  It is the sulphuric acid in an onion that makes us cry.  255 years ago today, the Nova Scotia legislature convened for the first time. Take a number to keep your wait under control....