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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Winners of the show have to pay taxes on their prizes. In fact, they have to pay them upfront in order to even get access to them. The prizes are treated as income and the winners have to pay the full retail value of the prize – as a result, a lot of winners choose not to accept the prizes.
Turkeys don’t have teeth. Instead, swallowed mouthfuls of food enter an initial chamber which uses stomach acid to begin softening the food. From there, the food travels to the anatomically wonderful gizzard (the gastric mill), where muscles, often aided by small stones, smash it into small pieces.
Here’s looking at you, ostrich kid! Those lashes! Those eyes! Not only are the world’s biggest bird’s visual organs quite pretty to behold, but each eye is also actually bigger than the ostrich’s brain! An ostrich egg, on the other hand, has as much volume as two dozen chicken eggs.
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Winners of the show have to pay taxes on their prizes. In fact, they have to pay them upfront in order to even get access to them. The prizes are treated as income and the winners have to pay the full retail value of the prize – as a result, a lot of winners choose not to accept the prizes.
Turkeys don’t have teeth. Instead, swallowed mouthfuls of food enter an initial chamber which uses stomach acid to begin softening the food. From there, the food travels to the anatomically wonderful gizzard (the gastric mill), where muscles, often aided by small stones, smash it into small pieces.
Here’s looking at you, ostrich kid! Those lashes! Those eyes! Not only are the world’s biggest bird’s visual organs quite pretty to behold, but each eye is also actually bigger than the ostrich’s brain! An ostrich egg, on the other hand, has as much volume as two dozen chicken eggs.
An unlikely friendship was forged between Ireland and the American Choctaw Indian Tribe, when the latter sent the former money during the famine. This was despite the fact that the tribe had just been forced to walk the Trail of Tears. You’ll find a monument of appreciation to the tribe in County Cork.
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