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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There’s only one day that beats the Superbowl as far as food consumption events are concerned, and that day is Thanksgiving. Food during the Superbowl is usually served buffet style and traditionally includes buffalo wings, chili, ribs, dipping sauces, pizza, and potato chips!
The grandfather of modern computers was a mechanical analog computer system which weighed an incredible 27 tons and took up more than 1700 square feet! It was first put to work in 1945 and was capable of being programmed to solve large numerical math problems. Obviously the first research performed on this machine was for military purposes.
U.S. bills are hardly the most durable out there; they have an average lifespan of just under eight year. Compare that to the plastic cash used in Australia which can survive a full round in the washing machine and you’ll see why U.S. money is the laughing stock (gettit?) of the world.
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There’s only one day that beats the Superbowl as far as food consumption events are concerned, and that day is Thanksgiving. Food during the Superbowl is usually served buffet style and traditionally includes buffalo wings, chili, ribs, dipping sauces, pizza, and potato chips!
The grandfather of modern computers was a mechanical analog computer system which weighed an incredible 27 tons and took up more than 1700 square feet! It was first put to work in 1945 and was capable of being programmed to solve large numerical math problems. Obviously the first research performed on this machine was for military purposes.
U.S. bills are hardly the most durable out there; they have an average lifespan of just under eight year. Compare that to the plastic cash used in Australia which can survive a full round in the washing machine and you’ll see why U.S. money is the laughing stock (gettit?) of the world.
Bond’s employer is the MI6, a department of the British Secret Service. The agency has a history of more than a hundred years – yet its existence was only officially confirmed by the British government in 1994!
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