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22/11/2022

Starfruit Trivia | 30 facts about the exotic fruit

Carambola or starfruit is an exotic fruit that resembles to a star. In general is consumed in Latin America, but it can be found in other places as well.

22/11/2022

Unlike pecans and walnuts, peanuts grow underground—not on trees. And while we're on the subject, this also makes peanuts legumes, not technically nuts. They're planted in early spring and harvested in the fall. Above ground, the plant creates a flower.

22/11/2022

National Geographic reports that when Asian elephants are feeling stressed or upset, their fellow pachyderms will attempt to provide comfort by caressing them with their trunks and offering "chirps of sympathy."

19/11/2022

In 1996, Bettina Dorfmann received her first Barbie—a Midge doll, in fact. By 1993, she was collecting them seriously. And in the 26 years since, she's managed to get her hands on more than 15,000 different versions of the iconic doll, including a rare original Barbie from 1959. In addition to collecting them, Dorfmann also runs a hospital for broken Barbies where she fixes or replaces broken limbs and untangles matted hair.

19/11/2022

If you want to find the very smallest things around, you'd need to track down something that's the size of the Planck length. It's the smallest possible size of anything in the known universe at a mere 1.6 x10-35 meter across, which is the equivalent of around a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter (or a decimal point followed by 34 zeroes and a one).

18/11/2022

Dating back to 859 A.D., the Al-Qarawiyyin Library in Fez, Morocco, had long been off limits to visitors who weren't the select few researchers and academics that had been granted access. However, in 2016, the world's oldest library, which houses a 9th century version of the Quran, finally opened its doors to anyone wishing to explore its ancient texts.

17/11/2022

In 1970, Ferrero was looking to replace "Refreshing Mints" as the name of its now iconic mini mouth fresheners. Instead of going with a similarly straightforward approach, the brand says the name we all know now was inspired by the tic and the tac sounds heard when you open and close the little plastic container the mints come in.

17/11/2022

NASA has found some pretty incredible things in space, and that includes a floating reservoir of water that holds the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the water that's in Earth's oceans. What makes it even more amazing is the fact that the reservoir surrounds a giant black hole.

More than 12 billion light-years away from Earth, the reservoir is more proof "that water is pervasive throughout the universe," says Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

17/11/2022

Pomegranate Trivia | 50 facts about the fruit

Pomegranate is a tasty fruit, which is beneficial for our health. It is also associated with many cultural and religious customs.

17/11/2022

Pudding Trivia | 30 facts about the English dish

Pudding is a type of food that can be either a dessert or a savory. It is very common in the U.S.A., Canada, and the United Kingdom.

16/11/2022

37 facts about hot dogs!

The hot dog is a common street food which is considered really tasty and is famous in many countries around the world.