The world is still a pretty good place.
napping around the park. Disneyland provides shelters for these cats so they can control the rat population.13.
Canada and Denmark have the politest ongoing dispute over a small island. Each country's navy has sailed out to the uninhabited rock, put up a flag, and left a bottle of booze for the opposing country's navy.and left a bottle of brandy and a note that read,"Welcome to the Danish island." In 2005, Canada's defense minister landed there and put up a Canadian flag. The next month, Denmark sent a warship, put up a Danish flag, and claimed that the Canadian flag had blown over.
Since then,"Nils Olav" has been given a promotion every time the King's Guard returns to the Edinburgh Zoo. He is now a brigadier and was even knighted by King Harald V in 2008. So that's SIR Nils Olav, Brigadier of the Norwegian Guard, to you. The king penguin even has a bronze statue in the zoo!
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