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 are at least one million trillion insects on the planet, and a mere one percent of this amount is ants! Imagine taking all these ants (around ten thousand trillion) and piling them up onto a giant scale. Entomologists believe that about 2,000 years ago, the total weight of ants on Earth might have equalled the total weight of people!
When you peer through a microscope, you are not looking directly at a specimen underneath but rather at an image of the specimen that is being projected up by the lenses to a place below the eyepiece!
The Lone Star tick can cause some people to become suddenly allergic to red meat. People with this allergy experience headaches, sneezing, a runny nose, and nausea! In very severe cases, the allergy can even cause some people to stop breathing. For some, the allergy fades, but for others, it’s permanent.
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There are at least one million trillion insects on the planet, and a mere one percent of this amount is ants! Imagine taking all these ants (around ten thousand trillion) and piling them up onto a giant scale. Entomologists believe that about 2,000 years ago, the total weight of ants on Earth might have equalled the total weight of people!
When you peer through a microscope, you are not looking directly at a specimen underneath but rather at an image of the specimen that is being projected up by the lenses to a place below the eyepiece!
The Lone Star tick can cause some people to become suddenly allergic to red meat. People with this allergy experience headaches, sneezing, a runny nose, and nausea! In very severe cases, the allergy can even cause some people to stop breathing. For some, the allergy fades, but for others, it’s permanent.
Juggling is said to increase the volume of gray matter in a child’s brain by 3 percent. “Learning a difficult perceptual-motor skill—juggling—induced a 3 percent increase in the volume of gray matter in visual attention areas,” write Yale scholars.
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