Louisiana is the prison capital of the world. One out of every 86 adults is behind bars, which is the highest rate in the US and twice the national rate.
Tea (except herbal teas, which are not really tea at all) is made from the Camellia sinensis plant. Black tea, green tea and oolong tea are all made from leaves plucked from the same tea bushes, but they undergo different processes to provide specific styles of beverage. Black tea is allowed to ferment, oolong is semi-fermented and green tea is unfermented. White tea is also unfermented and comes from the same bush, but is taken from the unopened buds of the tea bush.
Jason Lewis became the first person to circumnavigate the Earth without using motors or sails. He walked, cycled and inline skated 5 continents. He swam, kayaked, rowed and pedaled a boat across the rivers, seas, and oceans. It took him 13 years to complete the 46,505 mile journey.
Dropping molten glass into cold water produces a tadpole-like shape whose head can withstand hammer blows, but which explodes violently if its tail is damaged. These are called Prince Rupert’s Drops.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear...........
Before 1840, there were thousands of millions of passenger pigeons in North America. However, they were slaughtered for food until only one was left, a female called Martha. She died when she was 12 years old in 1914, in a zoo in Ohio.
Pule or Pule cheese is a Serbian cheese made from the milk of Balkan donkey's. A characteristic feature of Serbian cuisine, Pule is not only extremely rare but also one of the most, if not the most expensive cheese, in the world.
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