by Diana Filer
1. Human beings take approximately 17,000-29,000 breaths a day.
based on the normal resting rate of 10 to 20 a minute.
2. The new Canadian Ambassador to the European Union is former cabinet minister Jonathan Wilkinson.
3. Koku shobi is a Japanese term meanng ‘brutally hot’.
4. Pippi Longstocking is the fictional main character in a series of children’s books by the Swedish Author Astrid Lindgren.
5. Norway is also known as ‘The Land of the Midnight Sun’.

