If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions.
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Crowdie is a special Scottish cheese called ‘gruth’ in Gaelic. The Vikings were the first to start making it and these traditional methods are still used in Scotland. A field of cows once escaped and ate wild garlic causing the taste of their milk to change – it is now called ‘garlic crowdie’!
Music can help reduce anxiety and stress. It can also boost the immune system. The band Marconi Union worked with sound therapists to create the world’s most relaxing song. The song is so relaxing that stress specialists have issued a warning to not listen to it while driving.
It's thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. The use of the word 'orange' to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn't recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe.
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Crowdie is a special Scottish cheese called ‘gruth’ in Gaelic. The Vikings were the first to start making it and these traditional methods are still used in Scotland. A field of cows once escaped and ate wild garlic causing the taste of their milk to change – it is now called ‘garlic crowdie’!
Music can help reduce anxiety and stress. It can also boost the immune system. The band Marconi Union worked with sound therapists to create the world’s most relaxing song. The song is so relaxing that stress specialists have issued a warning to not listen to it while driving.
It's thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. The use of the word 'orange' to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn't recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe.
Whilst it may have Chinese origins, ramen has now become a distinctly Japanese phenomena, with countless varieties across the different regions. For example, the snowy climes of Sapporo, Hokkaido favour a warming miso ramen, whilst Tokyoites prefer a soy-based brother known as Shoyu Ramen.
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