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Facts About Coffee – Interesting Facts About Coffee

Dec 152011

Interesting Facts About Coffee

* Caffeinated coffee shows a beneficial effect on alertness and improves performance in a variety of tasks in both day and night sessions.

* Drinking coffee can reduce the muscle pain you feel after a workout.

* Some of the worlds most powerful business, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as a coffee houses.

* The popularity of dark roasted coffee is high in Southern Europe.

* Coffee farmers earn as little as 4 cents per pound for coffee they pick by hand.

* A good coffee tree can produce up to 1 kg of raw coffee per year.

* 25 million families around the world work in the coffee fields and are completely dependent upon coffee as their only source of income.

* Monks used coffee to stay awake and concentrate on what they were doing.

* During roasting the coffee beans dry out and the sugars in the beans start to caramelise.

* A coffee tree can flower eight times in any one year – depending on rainfall.

* The quality of a cup of coffee does not depend on the blend only but also on the ratio of the amount of water and coffee used for brewing.

* For every pound of gourmet coffee sold, a coffee farmer may receive between 12 and 25 cents.

* The present coffee producing belt around the globe encompasses approximately 70 countries.

* The coffee cherries turn from yellow to orange and then bright red, 6 – 8 months after flowering.

* Coffee only grows in tropical and sub-tropical regions.

Amazing Facts About The Human Body

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Dec 042011

Amazing Facts About The Human Body

* There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

* Around 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

* When a man stopped growing, there is still a part of the human body that continues to grow. What it is? The answer- the ear, but usually the earlobes only.

* In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.

* We have a a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.

* In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.

* The skin is the largest organ of the body. In an average-sized adult, the area is about 1.7 square meters and weighs 2.7 up to 3.4 kg. And according to a research study, humans are more hairy than monkeys.

* No two individuals have the same fingerprints. This is a known fact. But do you know that there is another one? No two individual have the same tongue prints. Amazing isn’t it?

* If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

* All parts of the body grow as we grow except for one. The moment we were born until we grow old the size of this human part doesn’t change at all. What is it? The answer – the eyes.

Interesting Facts About The Human Body

* We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.

* Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

* In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

* The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.

* Every minute, 40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body. 70% of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin.

* An average person has 1,00,000 strands of hair on his / her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches every year.

* Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).

* 40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.

Facts About South Africa For Kids

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Sep 302011

Facts About South Africa For Kids

* South Africa has the third highest level of biodiversity in the world.

* Of the population of South Africa 77% of the population are black, 10% are white, 8% are mixed race, 2.5% are of Indian or Asian descent

* South African grasslands have 30 species per square kilometer, greater than the biodiversity of rainforests.

* South Africa is ranked first in the world for its floral kingdom and South Africa is home to the world’s smallest succulent plants (less than 10 mm) and the largest (the baobab).

* There are 18000 indigenous vascular plant species in South Africa of which 80% are uniquely South African.

* South Africa is the first country outside of Europe to gain Blue Flag status for its coastal management.

* Several million of the population of South Africa have illegal immigrant status – they’re mostly from other African countries such as Zimbabwe, Malawi and the DRC.

Facts About South Africa For Kids

* Walt Disney serves South African wine exclusively at its 73-acre Animal Kingdom Lodge in the United States.

* South Africa is 5 times the size of Japan and three times the size of Texas.

* South Africa has deserts, mountains, escarpments, plateaus, grasslands, bush, wetlands and subtropical forests.

* 20% of the world’s gold is mined in South Africa.

* South Africa is the world’s largest producer of macadamia nuts and the nuts and oils are exported to countries across the world.

* The rocks around Barberton in Mpumalanga are some of the most ancient in the world – over three billion years old.

* The world’s first heart transplant was done in South Africa in 1967 by South African Dr Chris Barnard.

* South Africa offers approximately 1700 conference venues that range from large city conference venues catering for up to 5000 delegates, to small-meeting venues at resorts.

Interesting Facts About The Eye – Strange Eye Facts

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Sep 262011

Interesting Facts About The Eye

* Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.

* Eyes uses 65% of your brainpower, the most out of any body part.

* The human eye can distinguish about 500 shades of gray.

* It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

* Human eye can detect 10 million color hues, but cannot see ultraviolet or infrared light. Insects can see the ultraviolet light.

* Your eyes are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.

* Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.

* Your retina contains 120 million rods for “night vision”, and 8 million cones that are colour sensitive and work best under daylight conditions.

* All babies are colour blind when they are born. Babies eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

* The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.

* The normal person blinks about 10,000 times a day.

Interesting Facts About The Eye

* We blink once or twice at 10 seconds, and a blink lasts 0.3 seconds. In 12 hours, we blink 25 minutes. Infants starts blinking at the age of 6 months.

* Colour blindness is 10 times more common in males than females.

* Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.

* The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.

* Eyes in a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.

* Red and Green are the most commonly confused colours among colour blind people.

* The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

* The average human eye is about 1 inch in diameter.

* The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest.

Nervous System Fun Facts For Kids

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Aug 152011

Nervous System Fun Facts For Kids

* There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.

* A worm’s nervous system is limited, because it doesn’t have a spinal cord.

* Only four percent of the brain’s cells work while the remaining cells are kept in reserve.

* Nerves are made of very specialized cells called neurons.

* There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.

* The Nervous System can transmit impulses as fast as 100 meters per second.

* Long-distance nerves are insulated (covered) by a sheath of a fatty substance, myelin, to keep the signal strong.

* The total surface area of the human brain is about 25, 000 square cm.

* Each major muscle has many motor nerve-endings that instruct it to contract.

* Potassium and sodium ions are vital to the proper functioning of the Nervous System.

* The throat has motor nerve-endings but few sense endings, so you move it but not feel it.

* A newborn baby’s brain grows almost 3 times during the course of its first year.

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