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Coffee has been banned in several countries.
Throughout history, coffee has been banned in several places, including Mecca in the 16th century and Prussia in the…
There are more plastic flamingos in the world than real ones.
The iconic pink lawn ornaments were created in 1957 and became so popular that their numbers far exceed the real…
The most expensive cheese in the world is made from donkey milk.
Pule, produced in Serbia, requires 25 liters of Balkan donkey milk to make a single kilo, justifying the prohibitive…
The tomato is legally a vegetable in the US.
In 1893, the US Supreme Court decided that, for customs import tax purposes, the tomato would be classified as a…
Pepper was once used to pay rent.
During the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages, black pepper was so valuable that it was accepted as currency for…
Ice cream was invented in China 4000 years ago.
The ancient Chinese mixed mountain snow with milk, rice, and spices to create one of the first frozen desserts in…
Coffee has hundreds of aromatic compounds.
A green bean contains about 800 volatile compounds that, after roasting, transform and release the complex aroma we…
The original Coca-Cola had coca leaf extract.
The 1886 formula contained extracts of kola nut and coca leaves, which included small doses of the plant's active…
Vanilla is the 2nd most expensive spice in the world.
It requires manual flower-by-flower pollination and a long drying process, making it extremely expensive (surpassed…
Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
Retail statistics indicate that cheese leads the list of stolen products, due to its high resale value and ease of…
Facebook was once exclusive to Harvard.
It was called 'TheFacebook' and access was restricted to university students, expanding to the general public only…
The first emojis were created in Japan.
In 1999, Shigetaka Kurita designed 176 pictograms of 12x12 pixels to be used on a Japanese mobile internet platform.
The shortest song in the world is 1.3 seconds long.
The song 'You Suffer', by the band Napalm Death, entered the Record Books as the shortest, consisting of a single…
Disney is the largest buyer of fireworks in the world.
The various theme parks around the world consume industrial quantities of pyrotechnics for their daily nighttime…
The 'Play' symbol indicates tape movement.
The arrow points to the right because, in the first reel and cassette recorders, the physical tape ran from left to…
Monopoly was created against monopolies.
It was called 'The Landlord's Game' and was invented in 1903 to demonstrate the economic and social dangers of…
Wi-Fi uses the same frequency as a microwave.
The 2.4 GHz frequency of routers is standard for wireless communications, being the same used by ovens to excite…
There are more cell phones than people in the world.
The rapid global adoption of smartphones has caused the number of active devices to surpass the total human…
90% of the world's emails are spam.
The overwhelming majority of daily email traffic consists of unsolicited messages, scams, misleading advertising, or…
The word 'Google' originated from a spelling error.
The idea was based on the mathematical number 'Googol' (1 followed by 100 zeros), but the founders registered the…
Australia has never had a civil war.
Since its federation and independence, the country has managed to resolve its political and social tensions without…
The iceberg that sank the Titanic took months to melt.
Due to the glacial temperatures of the North Atlantic, the massive block of ice that destroyed the ship remained…
The flag of Nepal is not rectangular.
It is the only non-quadrilateral national flag, featuring the shape of two overlapping pennants, representing the…
The Great Pyramid was the tallest building in the world for over 3800 years.
Built with almost 150 meters in height, it held the record until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in England in…
