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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Isaac Newton’s cranium remained unscathed when he discovered gravity. The story that he got the idea to develop his laws of motion by an apple falling on his head is a myth – Newton merely stated that he was inspired by watching an apple fall from a tree.
‘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!
Have you ever heard of an electron microscope? These microscopes use electrons instead of light to create a magnified image. Invented in 1931 by German physicist Ernst Ruska, the first electron microscope was the transmission electronic microscope.
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Isaac Newton’s cranium remained unscathed when he discovered gravity. The story that he got the idea to develop his laws of motion by an apple falling on his head is a myth – Newton merely stated that he was inspired by watching an apple fall from a tree.
‘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!
Have you ever heard of an electron microscope? These microscopes use electrons instead of light to create a magnified image. Invented in 1931 by German physicist Ernst Ruska, the first electron microscope was the transmission electronic microscope.
It’s fascinating that the largest animal ever to have lived on earth, the blue whale, feeds on nothing but krill, shrimp-like creatures that are among the smallest sea-dwellers. But it takes 36 metric tons of krill a day to allay an adult blue whale’s hunger. That’s the weight of 25 cars!
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