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Chocolate Chip Power!

Monday, November 24th, 2008

A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet.

 

So that’s why kids can bounce off the walls.

Different-Colored Animals

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Have you heard of the white tigers?

 

How about the pink dolphins?

 

 

These are just some of the different-colored animals (read: rare) found in the world today. I know of these two. Is there anything else out there?

Kitties’ Fingerprints

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

If humans have differing fingerprints, cats have that too, except their unique markers are their noses - every cat’s nose pad is different.

 

Yeah, I can just imagine the CSIs having a record of all the cats’ nose pad prints.

Real American Chop Suey Dish

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Believe it or not, chop suey is actually an American dish, and it dates from 1860s.

 

While the name was derived from the Cantonese "shap sui" ("mixed bits"), it doesn’t mean that it actually originated in China.

While no one knows who exactly started the dish, what’s clear is that it was first made in America. Whether by Americans or immigrant Chinese, no one knows.:o

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Whatever Floats Your Soap

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

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Ivory soap has been known all over the world for its capacity to float, but did you know that the first batch of this was actually a product of a huge mistake? The workers have been mixing the soap formula, and excess air bubbles were formed, causing it to float. Customers wrote to the company telling them that they loved the idea of floating soap, and it floated ever since.

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