What country has the most islands?
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q The country of Finland has more islands than any other nation on Earth.
q It was Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, who made the following sage observation: “It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”
q In all likelihood, you’ve never heard of an ailment known as aquagenic urticaria. It’s extremely rare, affecting only one out of every 23 million people on the planet. Those who suffer from this disease are hypersensitive to the ions found in non-distilled water. They can drink distilled water, but if they come into contact with any other kind of water, they break out in a painful allergic rash.
q Next time you’re heading to sunny Florida for a vacation, try to make it to Key Largo to stay at the Jules Undersea Lodge. True to its name, the hotel is located 21 feet under water, and guests have to scuba dive to the entrance. And if you don’t already know how to scuba dive, don’t worry – the management offers a two-hour introduction so you can make it to your room.
q Someone with way too much time on his hands discovered that a quarter has 119 grooves along its edge.
q From the Yes, There Is a Word for It files comes today’s entry: acnestis. This word denotes that part of the body that you cannot reach to scratch (and it’s an excellent reason to get married). This handy noun comes from the word “aknestis,” which, perhaps unsurprisingly, means “spine” in Greek.
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Thought for the Day:
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself – like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.”
– Jean Kerr
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