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Did you know that when you go shopping for perfume, you should take some coffee with you in your bag, but why?
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Well, if you have a good sniff in between smelling each perfume it will refresh your nose! This is just one of the many coffee trivia facts that we have come across and we also found several interesting facts for gardeners.
After enjoying a cup of coffee, if you sprinkle spent coffee grounds around the base of your garden plants, it will stop snails and slugs from eating them! A mixture of coffee grounds and sugar fed to a pot plant and watered regularly, will revive houseplants that have turned yellow in winter.
At the end of the 16th century records show there were at least 500 cafes in Istanbul alone. Immigrants from Asia opened the first European cafes around1650. Some of the worlds most powerful businesses today, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as coffee houses.
Back in December 2001 Brazil produced a scented postage stamp to promote its coffee – it was said that the smell of coffee lasted between 3 and 5 years.
History shows that may famous people drank coffee; Vincent Van Gogh was a big partaker of the café society and famously said “I have tried to show the café as a place where one can go mad.” Pope Clement VIII loved coffee and authorised its use and contributed towards it rise in popularity.
There are many interest facts about the coffee tree itself, which has a lifespan of about 50 to 70 years. It can flower eight times in just one year and when in bloom the coffee tree is covered with 30,000 white flowers which begin to develop into fruit after 24 to 36 hours.
Coffee increases in volume during roasting by 18.60%, but the aromas in coffee (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/
It is the second most widely used product in the world after oil and more than 100 million people make their living from coffee (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/
So if you fancy enjoying the world's second most popular drink after water, take a look at easy to use individual foil wrapped coffee capsules (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/
Well, if you have a good sniff in between smelling each perfume it will refresh your nose! This is just one of the many coffee trivia facts that we have come across and we also found several interesting facts for gardeners.
After enjoying a cup of coffee, if you sprinkle spent coffee grounds around the base of your garden plants, it will stop snails and slugs from eating them! A mixture of coffee grounds and sugar fed to a pot plant and watered regularly, will revive houseplants that have turned yellow in winter.
At the end of the 16th century records show there were at least 500 cafes in Istanbul alone. Immigrants from Asia opened the first European cafes around1650. Some of the worlds most powerful businesses today, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as coffee houses.
Back in December 2001 Brazil produced a scented postage stamp to promote its coffee – it was said that the smell of coffee lasted between 3 and 5 years.
History shows that may famous people drank coffee; Vincent Van Gogh was a big partaker of the café society and famously said “I have tried to show the café as a place where one can go mad.” Pope Clement VIII loved coffee and authorised its use and contributed towards it rise in popularity.
There are many interest facts about the coffee tree itself, which has a lifespan of about 50 to 70 years. It can flower eight times in just one year and when in bloom the coffee tree is covered with 30,000 white flowers which begin to develop into fruit after 24 to 36 hours.
Coffee increases in volume during roasting by 18.60%, but the aromas in coffee (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/
It is the second most widely used product in the world after oil and more than 100 million people make their living from coffee (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/
So if you fancy enjoying the world's second most popular drink after water, take a look at easy to use individual foil wrapped coffee capsules (http://www.espressocoffeeclub.co.uk/
Thursday, August 23, 2012
A Few Awesome and Funny Facts
- ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
- ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
- Rubber band last longer when refrigerated.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Friday, August 17, 2012
A Few Awesome and Funny Facts
- Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
- ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
- Rubber band last longer when refrigerated.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
[klip-trivia] Trivia & Amazing Facts 18-07-12 - rmoses1@gmail.com - Gmail
- Every square inch of the Human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- Reptiles were responsible for such body part innovations as fur, feathers, claws, differentiated teeth, water impervious skin, water impervious eggs, and the penis.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Trivia and Amazing Facts-bacteria, rats, cake with a coin, aspirin cats, domesticate animals
- Every square inch of the Human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
- In Greece, a cake called peta is baked with a coin inside it. The person who gets the slice with the coin will have special luck in the coming year.
- Never give your cat aspirin, unless advised to do so by your vet. Aspirin can cause hemorrhaging in the gastorintestinal tract. It can also depress bone marrow activity, which makes red blood cells and may also damage the kidneys.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates
- Bill Gates
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Saturday is the most popular day for people to eat out in the United States.
Are little girls still made with “sugar ‘n’ spice, and everything nice?” Well, almost. Females average 23% muscle by weight and 25% fat. Males - 40% muscle and 15% fat.
A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
In Hungary, a roast pig, with a four-leaf clover in its mouth, is prepared for New Year's.
An average person spends three years of his or her life on the toilet.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Why is rice grown underwater? - Trivia « ArcaMax Publishing
The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas.
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"Enjoy yourself; it's later than you think"
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Friday, July 29, 2011
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Monday, July 18, 2011
What animals move slower than humans? - Trivia « ArcaMax Publishing
Well, there are a few. The elephant, when charging, only runs about 25 mph. Other slow-pokes: squirrel (12 mph), domestic pig (11 mph), chicken (9 mph), giant tortoise (0.17 mph), three-toed sloth (0.15 mph), and garden snail (0.03 mph).
Sunday, July 17, 2011
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- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- WHEN WAS THE ARK OF THE COVENANT LAST SEEN? The wooden chest that contained God's laws as presented to Moses was taken on its last trip to Jerusalem by King David. Eventually King Solomon put it in the Temple. It disappeared when the Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C.
- In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
- The entire life of a House Fly is spent within a few hundred feet of the area where it was born.
- The Toronto Maple Leafs used to be called the Toronto Arenas, then the St. Patricks and finally the Maple Leafs.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
10 Interesting Space Shuttle Facts
1) Space Shuttles are the only vehicles to take human into space.
2) During the time in orbit, the space shuttle travels circles around the Earth at about 17,500 mile speed which means 28, 000 kilometers per hour, which enables the crew to see sunrise or sunset each 40 minutes.
3) A Space Shuttle and its boosters are the same height of Statue of Liberty but weigh nearly three times of it.
4) The astronauts’ food consists of peanut butter, fruits, vegetables nuts, chicken, beef, and spaghetti. As the things fly away in space, the foodstuff for astronauts is kept in some kind of packages which prevents the food from flying.
5) Space Shuttles suffered two disastrous accidents that killed 14 astronauts and 2 orbiters.
6) NASA assured that there would be 50 flights a year but couldn’t make it and was only able to manage nine flights a year, each of them costing almost $1.45 billion.
7) The Space Shuttle’s main engine has a weight of about one-seventh as of a train engine but has a horsepower of as much as 39 train engines.
8) During its 10th flight, Challenger broke right after its launch, in which all of the crew members died. One of crew member who died in this flight was a teacher , who volunteered to be part of this flight and was selected from over 1000 applicants for the new Teacher In Space Program.
9) The speed of a space shuttle is 17,500 mph.
10) Columbia stayed for 17 days in space, the longest stay in history in 1996 and was destroyed in 2003 during its twenty-eighth flight.
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