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Post by althea on Mar 8, 2019 15:53:59 GMT
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world.The first is oil.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 15, 2019 14:54:07 GMT
A typical acre of soil contains 400 kg of earthworms, 1000 kg of fungi, 680 kg of bacteria and 400 kg of insects.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 19:11:20 GMT
Those pesky garden pests
A snail can sleep for three years
Slugs have four noses.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 18, 2019 10:16:49 GMT
During World War I, a Canadian soldier made a black bear his pet and named her Winnipeg. “Winnie” was later a resident of the London Zoological Gardens where she was an adored attraction, especially to a boy named Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. The boy even named his teddy bear after her.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2019 13:55:37 GMT
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows
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Post by ARENA on Mar 19, 2019 12:26:28 GMT
It is illegal for anyone to die in the Houses of Parliament.*
* Apart from Theresa May, who has done it on numerous occasions.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 14:50:28 GMT
.Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second
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Post by ARENA on Mar 23, 2019 9:51:24 GMT
Blue-eyed people tend to have the highest tolerance of alcohol.
I'll drink to that...
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Post by althea on Mar 23, 2019 15:02:38 GMT
I think that is true. My eyes are brown and I get tiddly very quickly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 20:51:09 GMT
The most used password on the internet is "Password"
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Post by ARENA on Mar 25, 2019 9:33:24 GMT
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 26, 2019 9:21:51 GMT
Henry J. Heinz introduced the marketing slogan "57 pickle Varieties" in 1896. He later claimed he was inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City (a shoe store boasting "21 styles"). The reason for "57" is unclear. Heinz said he chose "5" because it was his lucky number and the number "7" was his wife's lucky number. However, Heinz also said the number "7" was selected specifically because of the "psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages". Whatever the reasons, Heinz wanted the company to advertise the greatest number of choices of pickles. In fact by 1892, four years before the slogan was created, the Heinz company was already selling more than 60 products.
The first product to be promoted under the new "57 varieties" slogan was prepared horseradish. By 1940, the term "Heinz 57" had become so synonymous with the company the name was used to market a steak sauce.
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Post by althea on Mar 27, 2019 9:27:23 GMT
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. That doesn't seem fair. I'm a lefty. In Yorkshire,left handers are called cuddy wifters. I've no idea why. |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 18, 2019 17:45:07 GMT
The Bayeux tapestry depicts 93 penises. Of these, 88 belong to horses and 5 belong to humans.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 19, 2019 7:50:00 GMT
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
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