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Since the Wiki had an article about the history of the Swedish counties, and it turned out to be wrong, I'm sceptical about it.

The most reliable Wiki is probably the German one, that's my experience.

Steven Tyler's cousin, Tommy Tallarico, is a prolific composer of video game music.

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The average canary has 2,200 feathers.

There are more germs in the average beard than are found on a toilet seat.

There are 10 times more germs in a mouth with freshly brushed teeth than on a freshly washed penis. And they are more vile.

On average women blink twice as much as men.
Lame....got to come up with some better ones.

Moses sent out 2 birds to search for dry land a raven and a dove.

American bourbon whiskey got it's name from the village Bourbon in Kentucky.

The electron microscope (1938), the snowblower (1925), the baby food, Pablum, (1930) and the zipper (1934) were all Canadian inventions.

The very different flavour in American vs Scotch whiskies depends on partly that American whiskies are made out of either maize or rye or a mixture of maize, rye and corn, never pure corn, while Scotch is always made of pure corn, and partly that American whiskey barrels are only used once, so that the liquor gets a very strong taste from the barrel, while Scotch barrels actually (mostly) are American barrels that have been used again and again, so that the whisky only absorbs a small hint of taste from the barrel. It also depends on the fact that American whiskey is never peated, so that it tastes sweet and fruity and sharp at the same time.

A Canadian, Sir Sandford Fleming, created the world's 24 time zones. North American railways first adopted the idea, establishing GMT as the horological starting point on January 1, 1885.

The metric system was invented by the French during the revolution 1789. One meter is the distance from the geographical south pole to the geographical north pole, drawn through the observatory in Paris and divided with 40000. The French sent an expedition to northern Sweden in the 1790s to measure the distances above the arctic circle.

There is a standard "meter" locked in a vault in Paris, though it's some micrometers to short.

Mary Ellen Smith became the first woman Cabinet minister in the Western world when she was appointed to British Columbia's provincial cabinet in 1921. First elected in 1918, Smith served in the provincial legislature for the next 10 years.