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Fun Facts for 21 May 2018 Canadians have celebrated today as the Queen’s Birthday, a.k.a. Victoria Day, since 1845. Belgians consume six kilos of chocolate annually.  Human bones are 36% water. The Republic of South Sudan is the planet’s newest country. People who hang up as the other party answers-because they forgot who they rang-suffer from phonesia.   Canada Post employs 64,000 people. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.  The tourist tax in Rome is €5 per night, payable at one’s 3-star hotel, upon checkout.  A 500-gram box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes contains 7,122 individual flakes.  Victoria Day starts tourist season, and runs to Thanksgiving in October but it is illegal to hunt them. 300,000 Barbadians have the day off in observance of Whit Monday.  One of the most commonly reported dreams is that of falling.  In addition to five primary senses, we possess 15 more, including balance, temperature and pain. A hum...

From Bonavista Bay to Juan de Fuca Strait, this is National Safe Boating Week.  A bale of hay weighs between 25 to 75 kilos. There are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet.  Tuna is part of the mackerel family.  Some folk don’t know how to act their age because they have never been this old before. In Romanian folklore, a seven-year old boy and a white horse are required to hunt vampires. Ho! Ho! Ho! The Jolly Green Giant has walked the valley since 1935. 83% of Canadians consider themselves to be brand loyal.  Levi Strauss received patent number 139,121 for copper-riveted jeans, on this date in 1873. Never judge a book by its movie.  There are 1.4 billion television receivers on the planet. A mosquito’s favourite meal is Type O.  The 11,377 souls who reside in the State of Yap are called Yapese. For £2, one can download the Ten Plagues of Egypt colouring book. I’m thankful that I don’t have to hunt for my food. I ...