- Nova Scotia is a province of Canada.
- Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains.
- The North and South Islands of New Zealand are separated by the Cook Strait.
- A medical condition that shares its name with a 1958 movie is Vertigo - Vertigo from the Latin vertō "a whirling or spinning movement" and is a subtype of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary
- The common name for the card game vingt-et-un is blackjack.
- The collective name for a group of lawyers is eloquence - an eloquence of lawyers.
- 63 nations in 1971 signed an agreement in ceremonies in London, Moscow and Washington to ban nuclear weapons from the ocean floor.
- An alternate name for a pumpkin is shared by a sport – squash.
- After more than two decades in a South African jail, Nelson Mandela was released in 1990.
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