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We ring in a New Year in 100 days. The highest quality embroidery needles are plated with two-thirds platinum and one third titanium alloy.  Canadian farmers produce 220 tonnes of onions each growing season.  The Bahamas, Gabon, Chad and Bermuda have the world’s highest tariffs. A physicist’s favourite meal is fission chips.  There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States. The number of leaves on a mature oak tree number upwards of 500,00.  Today in 1932, the unification of Saudi Arabia took place; this National Day in the Kingdom. France’s Force de Frappe  stands at 300 nuclear warheads, the third largest on the planet. Illegal refugees sneaking into Stockholm are artificial Swedeners. In Arabic, there are more than 160 words that mean ‘camel’.  Austria, Germany, Japan and  Switzerland are the most difficult countries to gain citizenship.  The many vitamins and antioxidants in hot peppers b...

Today in 1534, Jacques Cartier was the first European explorer to set foot on PEI. Buttermilk is an organic antacid.  11,708 New Zealanders were attacked by dogs in 2017.  250 million people in 200 countries play football, a.k.a soccer. When I said to a friend, “Those children are spoiled,” she replied, “All kids smell like that.” Oil and iron ore make up 84.3% of Newfoundland and Labrador’s exports.  France declared Tahiti as a colony on this date in 1880. Violets are blue—all 600 species.   Many of the 59,346 personnel in the Royal Dutch Military are union members. A cannibal will sit down in a restaurant and order the waiter.  If they do, they will die, so most sharks never sleep.  Nauru was visited by 200 tourists in 2011.  An oak tree produces an average of 2,000 acorns each season.  Where it all began, Charlottetown numbers 36,094 souls. The Immaculate Conception may have been a case of spontaneo...