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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Are you a fan of fruit salad? If so, consider planting a special fruit salad tree! There are multi-grafted trees in Australia that produce up to six different types of fruit! You only need one tree to whip up a tasty fruit salad of sorts!
Bingo cards were used by players from Germany in the 1800s. Surprisingly, they didn’t use them for gaming but they used them as educational tools for students to learn multiplication in maths.
So you’ve always wanted a cuckoo clock, but you simply don’t have the space? I’ve been there, brother. Try the mini varieties from inventor Hubert Herr – the smallest is just 5 inches tall and can fit on your hand! How cute. If you cannot abide tiny time-keeping devices, don’t worry, we hear you. Get yourself to the Hornberger Uhrenspiele, featured in the 1997 Guinness Book of World Records for its sheer size and magnitude. Approximately 11.5m wide and 10.8m high, it comes complete with musicians, a mechanical waterwheel and even a chimney sweep. That’s bound to impress the neighbors.
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Are you a fan of fruit salad? If so, consider planting a special fruit salad tree! There are multi-grafted trees in Australia that produce up to six different types of fruit! You only need one tree to whip up a tasty fruit salad of sorts!
Bingo cards were used by players from Germany in the 1800s. Surprisingly, they didn’t use them for gaming but they used them as educational tools for students to learn multiplication in maths.
So you’ve always wanted a cuckoo clock, but you simply don’t have the space? I’ve been there, brother. Try the mini varieties from inventor Hubert Herr – the smallest is just 5 inches tall and can fit on your hand! How cute. If you cannot abide tiny time-keeping devices, don’t worry, we hear you. Get yourself to the Hornberger Uhrenspiele, featured in the 1997 Guinness Book of World Records for its sheer size and magnitude. Approximately 11.5m wide and 10.8m high, it comes complete with musicians, a mechanical waterwheel and even a chimney sweep. That’s bound to impress the neighbors.
This same European nation brought all sorts of things to Japan, including castella cake and Christianity! The ‘Nanban’ trade was a period in Japanese history when Europeans brought their wares to the isolated Japanese isles. Ever heard of Chicken Nanban? This delicious dish from Miyazaki also has its roots in the same European country.
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