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Diamond is April’s traditional birthstone. The names Faith and Grace were first recorded in Cromwell’s England. Las Vegans may choose among 22 TV and 46 radio stations. The RCMP used horses in daily police duties from 1873 to 1936. Parking meter: a gambling device that bets a toonie to a nickel you can't get back in time. Sunsets on Mars are blue. PEI is home to 300 houses of worship. Wednesday’s child is full of woe. Koala bears sleep 22 hours a day. The trouble with religion is the majority who practise aren't any good at it.  Alberta’s oil sands are the size of New Brunswick. Tempo is measured in BPM, beats per minute. VW workers built 21,529,464 Beetles from 1938 to 2003. In 19th Century England, the wealthy had their shoes polished with champagne. Negotiating a bend in the road is not the same as going on a bender. The rolling office chair was invented by Charles Darwin. Just shy of a million souls, Ottawa is the nation’s fo...

The process of casting bells is called bellfoundry. Rome is home to 280 fountains and more than 900 churches. Liquorice is a member of the pea family.  A kilo of newspapers recycle as a half-dozen egg cartons or 2,000 sheets of paper. Whoever invented ‘knock-knock’ jokes should win the no-bell prize. Replacing operator-assisted toll-free ZEnith numbers, area code 800 was created in 1967. Under proper scientific conditions, it is possible to freeze bubbles. At its height, a million soldiers marched under the banner of Rome. Canoeing became an Olympic sport in 1924. Some folks hit rock bottom and immediately start to dig.  The Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander is 889th in line to the British throne. A standard-sized pillow measures 51x66 centimetres. There are 55 categories of poetry.  Named for the Parisian district of manufacture, e au de Javel   was patented in 1799. The number of angels that dance on the head...