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Estonia is home to 200 wolves. 95% of all farms in British Columbia are family run and owned.  Amazon owns 30 cargo planes and leases another ten to deliver goods in 30 countries. Memory foam was invented by NASA in the 1970s. The best butter on the farm is a goat. Québec City is the eleventh largest city in the nation.   Physical, physiological and cognitive are the three classes of optical illusions.  Tsetse flies fold their wings one on top of the other when at rest. Whispering is an unvoiced mode of phonation in which the vocal cords do not vibrate. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease. ~George W. Bush Refined canola oil’s burn point is 204°C. Canada and France have the only two tidal power plants on Earth.  The cast iron Dutch oven was invented in 1702. On 04 September 1939, Nepal declared war on Germany. You know it’s a bad cook when there are bones in the toast. Sesame seeds are black or ...

A serving of reindeer meat contains 34 calories, seven grams of protein and one gram of fat. Tick, tock, tick, tock; Christmas will be here in 36 days.  The British Empire became the British Commonwealth of Nations, on this day in 1926. In Québec he is  le petit Renne au nez rouge;  in English Canada he is Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. I told my neighbour that Christmas was right around the corner; he went out to look for it.   The sensory function of taste is the weakest of the five senses.  Finns have more than 3,000 saunas.  Ushered into the world in 1928, this is the birthday of Mickey Mouse. There are three private schools on Prince Edward Island.  People who suffer from an irrational fear of St. Nick are claustrophobics.  Silent Night was first performed in Austria, 200 years ago.  The drinking age is 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Québec; in all other jurisdictions, it's 19.  Men’s dress...

Today is National Noodle Day as observed by folk in all 50 of the United States. Wool is mildew and mould resistant. 117 countries have postal code systems. A maple tree can grow on mountainsides as high as 2 000 metres. Helicopters dry cherries after rain so the fruit doesn’t soak up too much water and explode. According to researchers, the average man tells three lies a day. The ratio of sheep to people in New Zealand is 7.13 to one.  500 New Brunswickers were killed in the Great Miramichi Fire on this date in 1825. At the crack of dawn, nitrogen becomes daytrogen.  Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel.  More than 68,000 Americans were injured by their lawn mowers last year.  Japan welcomed 8,212,137 visitors from China in 2015. The price of cruising the Great Lakes on a salty or a laker averages $130 a night. My next-door neighbour has every known disease on Earth except for hypochondria.  Harley’s 5,800 workers ...