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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The autumn equinox signals a colorful spectacle, and not just with the leaves changing their coats, but more specifically the ‘Aurora season’. According to NASA, geomagnetic storms are twice as frequent as the annual average during the fall.
Have you ever had the pleasure of watching a card game be televised? It’s quite a common occurrence nowadays and you’ll likely see plenty of channels running large games. The first of these was held in 1973 in Nevada!
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’.
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The autumn equinox signals a colorful spectacle, and not just with the leaves changing their coats, but more specifically the ‘Aurora season’. According to NASA, geomagnetic storms are twice as frequent as the annual average during the fall.
Have you ever had the pleasure of watching a card game be televised? It’s quite a common occurrence nowadays and you’ll likely see plenty of channels running large games. The first of these was held in 1973 in Nevada!
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’.
In Singapore, there is a traditional day called ‘Zhong Yuan Jie’ usually during August. People throng the streets offering up money and burning joss sticks in tribute to spirits. There’s also a superstition that it is a bad time to get married or buy a house.