The trees which grow cacao can live for an impressive 200 years! However, the plants only create viable beans for making chocolate for just twenty years of their lifespan.
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Ketchup didn’t originally contain tomatoes but was rather a concoction made of fish or mushrooms. Once tomato ketchup was invented, a physician named John Cooke Bennet had the brilliant idea to press the sauce into pills and sell them as a cure for diarrhea, indigestion and rheumatism. The ketchup medicine craze didn’t last long.
In 2008, Japanese scientists founded a protein and named it “Pikachurin.” Why? Because it worked well with electricity. Love it.
‘Jeopardy!’ is king. The show has outlived over 400 other game shows in nearly four decades since its reprisal in 1984. There are about 230 new episodes produced in a single year, with 46 days of taping, and five tapings a day. This means that the show has over 7,000 episodes!
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Ketchup didn’t originally contain tomatoes but was rather a concoction made of fish or mushrooms. Once tomato ketchup was invented, a physician named John Cooke Bennet had the brilliant idea to press the sauce into pills and sell them as a cure for diarrhea, indigestion and rheumatism. The ketchup medicine craze didn’t last long.
In 2008, Japanese scientists founded a protein and named it “Pikachurin.” Why? Because it worked well with electricity. Love it.
‘Jeopardy!’ is king. The show has outlived over 400 other game shows in nearly four decades since its reprisal in 1984. There are about 230 new episodes produced in a single year, with 46 days of taping, and five tapings a day. This means that the show has over 7,000 episodes!
Do you consider anyone lucky? Lucky people not only rely on their left-brain logic, but also on their intuition. Research has shown that the brain comprehends patterns that are far more complex than conscious understanding. Honing your insight skills can have you feeling lucky in no time!
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