Fascinating Facts C (783 facts)
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- 90% of New York City cab ...
- If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you'll ...
- Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans ...
- The fruit of the Cacao tree grow directly from the trunk. They look like small melons, and the ...
- The caduceus the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff comes ...
- Julius Caesar was the first to encode ...
- Julius Caesar, Martin Luther and Jonathan Swift all suffered from Ménièr's disease. It is ...
- Julius Caesar and Napoleon ...
- Before the first French cafe in the late 1700's, coffee was sold by street vendors in ...
- The first Parisian cafe ...
- Over 10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending ...
- Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a ...
- Coffee represents 75% of all the ...
- Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances. Athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms ...
- German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German developed a sweet baking ...
- Pound cake is so named not just because of the pound of butter, but more precisely because ...
- Wedding cake was originally thrown at the ...
- The first computer, the steam-driven calculating machine, was built in 1823 by Charles Babbage. It failed to ...
- A citizen of Calcutta, India , grew the ...
- The Gregorian calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory in 1582 AD, ...
- California's Frank Epperson invented the ...
- The California grape and wine industries were started by Count Agoston Haraszthy de Moksa, ...
- During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the ...
- In California you may not set a ...
- The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can ...
- The California redwood coast redwood and giant sequoia ...
- The whiskers on a ...
- A poem written to celebrate a ...
- Cheetahs were ...
- There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but ...
- The first personal computer was called the Altair and was made ...
- Danishes are called Vienna cakes in ...
- More than one million people play a ...
- The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the ...
- Did you know a tuna called the 'Blue Fin' ...
- The fungus called truffles can cost $800 to $1,500 per pound. They are sniffed out by female pigs, which ...
- The movie As Good As It Gets ...
- A pregnant ...
- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine ...
- The high jump method of jumping head first and ...
- A word or sentence that is the same front ...
- Leopards were originally ...
- There is a member of the spider family called the demodex folliculorum that lives at the root of people's eye lashes. It's harmless and normal.(so they claim) ...
- There's a town in New Mexico called Pie Town that consists of two restaurants and a post office. ...
- The name for the middle part of the nose (the ...
- Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical error ...
- Uranus was originally called George, ...
- The Volkswagen was originally ...
- A whale's penis ...
- There is a flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed ...
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