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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Sweden has two Halloween celebrations which are held to honor Catholic saints. They are big fans of the pumpkin and will carve very frightening faces on them to scare spirits away. The celebrations are called ‘Alla Helgons dag’ and ‘Allhelgonadagen’.
Many people have difficulties grasping exponential growth and its implications can be quite overwhelming. The current world record in paper folding is twelve times... a sheet of paper folded in half 103 times would be as thick as the entire observable universe!
Most languages have so many words, usually more than 50,000! However, on average, people only use a few hundred words in daily conversation! Why not try challenging yourself to use a more varied vocabulary next time you engage in conversation!
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Sweden has two Halloween celebrations which are held to honor Catholic saints. They are big fans of the pumpkin and will carve very frightening faces on them to scare spirits away. The celebrations are called ‘Alla Helgons dag’ and ‘Allhelgonadagen’.
Many people have difficulties grasping exponential growth and its implications can be quite overwhelming. The current world record in paper folding is twelve times... a sheet of paper folded in half 103 times would be as thick as the entire observable universe!
Most languages have so many words, usually more than 50,000! However, on average, people only use a few hundred words in daily conversation! Why not try challenging yourself to use a more varied vocabulary next time you engage in conversation!
Many of the names in ‘The Lion King’ are Swahili words. Simba, Sarabi, Rafiki, and Pumbaa translate into lion, mirage, friend, and foolish. And perhaps one of the most iconic phrases in the film, ‘Hakuna matata’ translates roughly from Swahili into English as ‘no worries.’
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