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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North America’s biggest street festival is not in New York, Chicago, or even the United States! Toronoto plays host to the Caribana, the colourful celebration of Caribbean culture. It’s also a city with low crime rate, cohesive multiculturalism and a strong connection to the environment with plenty of public parts. Time to move to Canada?
In 2014, researchers came up with a game featuring the biggest pop hits from the 1940's onwards. They concluded that ‘Wannabe’ by the Spice Girls was the catchiest song of all time. It took people an average of 2.3 seconds to identify the song! Other catchy songs included ‘Mambo Number Five’ by Lou Bega and Survivor’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’.
Scientists believe that humans evolved to have blonde hair to more efficiently synthesize vitamin D! This mutation probably occurred because of the fewer hours of sunlight in Northern Europe. It is estimated that this took place during the last ice age, approximately 11,000 years ago!
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North America’s biggest street festival is not in New York, Chicago, or even the United States! Toronoto plays host to the Caribana, the colourful celebration of Caribbean culture. It’s also a city with low crime rate, cohesive multiculturalism and a strong connection to the environment with plenty of public parts. Time to move to Canada?
In 2014, researchers came up with a game featuring the biggest pop hits from the 1940's onwards. They concluded that ‘Wannabe’ by the Spice Girls was the catchiest song of all time. It took people an average of 2.3 seconds to identify the song! Other catchy songs included ‘Mambo Number Five’ by Lou Bega and Survivor’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’.
Scientists believe that humans evolved to have blonde hair to more efficiently synthesize vitamin D! This mutation probably occurred because of the fewer hours of sunlight in Northern Europe. It is estimated that this took place during the last ice age, approximately 11,000 years ago!
It was the British that came up with the ‘sandwich’ – this was invented by the Earl of Sandwich who was such a gambler that he didn’t want to stop for lunch. He instructed his servant to simply put some food in-between two slices of bread.
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