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 first entirely computer generated movie sequence in cinema history was the Genesis Device demonstration video in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The studio that made the scene would later become Pixar.
Believe or not, the first McDonald’s was a BBQ shack in San Bernardino, California. Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first restaurant in 1940. Eight years after it opened, McDonald’s switched its focus to hamburgers, shakes, and pies. Ray Kroc purchased franchise rights from the brothers and the golden arches appeared across the country, and around the world!
Because there is no atmosphere in space, there is no medium through which sound can travel, meaning that space is completely and utterly silent. Not even the statement, ‘It’s so silent you can hear a pin drop’ would hold true in the great starry expanse. Astronauts communicate using radios, since radio waves can still be sent and received. Do you copy? Over and out.
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The first entirely computer generated movie sequence in cinema history was the Genesis Device demonstration video in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The studio that made the scene would later become Pixar.
Believe or not, the first McDonald’s was a BBQ shack in San Bernardino, California. Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first restaurant in 1940. Eight years after it opened, McDonald’s switched its focus to hamburgers, shakes, and pies. Ray Kroc purchased franchise rights from the brothers and the golden arches appeared across the country, and around the world!
Because there is no atmosphere in space, there is no medium through which sound can travel, meaning that space is completely and utterly silent. Not even the statement, ‘It’s so silent you can hear a pin drop’ would hold true in the great starry expanse. Astronauts communicate using radios, since radio waves can still be sent and received. Do you copy? Over and out.
Guess who was the first video game character to have a balloon at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City? Believe it or not, it wasn't Mario. It was actually little blue Sonic. Mario lost out on that one, huh?
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