- Peru grows more than 55 varieties of corn, and you can just about find it in any color including yellow, purple, white and black.
- Peru is the 6th largest producer of gold.
- Two-thirds of Peru is covered in prime Amazon Rain Forest.
- Peru’s is the 8th largest producer of coffee in the world.
- There are some 90 different micro-climates in Peru, making it one of the most bio-diverse countries on the planet.
Thursday, 7 August 2014
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Peru
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Chile
- Chile is one of only two countries in all of South America that does not border Brazil.
- The Andes, the longest continental mountain range in the world occupies 80 percent of Chile.
- It has a population of 16,136,000.
- Chile has one of the longest recorded dry spells in the Atacama Desert it did not rain for 40 years.
- Chile received its independence from Spanish colonial rule in 1913.
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Venezuela
- Venezuela occupies most of the northern coast of South America on the Caribbean Sea.
- Slavery was abolished in Venezuela in 1854.
- Venezuela was the largest oil exporter in the world in the early twentieth century.
- Population of Venezuela is 28,946,101.
- Angel Falls in Venezuela is the tallest waterfall in the world.
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Greece
- No one in Greece can choose to not vote. Voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older.
- About 7% of all the marble produced in the world comes from Greece.
- Greece is the leading producer of sea sponges.
- Greek has been spoken for more than 3,000 years, making it one of the oldest languages in Europe.
- The first Olympic Games took place in 776 B.C. The first Olympic champion was a Greek cook named Coroebus who won the sprint race.
Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Godfather
- In the film’s opening scene, Vito is famously seen holding a cat. Amazingly this was a stray - there was no cat in the original script.
- Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look "like a bulldog," so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition.
- The shooting of Moe Greene square through the eyeball was inspired by the real life death of gangster Bugsy Siegel.
- The most complicated scene for special effects was the death of Sonny Corleone at the Jones Beach Causeway toll plaza.
- Robert De Niro had auditioned for the role of Sonny.
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Slurpee
- 7-Eleven has sold over 6.5 billion slurpees till date.
- Most slurpees are sold in Cannda.
- Slurpee light - the low calorie version of the drink accounts for 20 percent of the total sales of the Slurpee.
- One lucky individual in this world owns the slurpee machine, the rest are in 7-eleven stores.
- In 2004, 7-eleven gave edible straws along with slurpees.
Monday, 4 August 2014
Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Top Gun
- Ray Ban glasses had a massive spike in sales in 1986 after the release of the movie.
- The US Navy capitalized on the movie’s success by setting up recruitment boots outside movie theatres so that males heading home after watching it could sign up for a career in the service.
- Tom Cruise was paid $1 million for his role.
- Anthony Edwards (Goose) was the only actor who didn't vomit in the flight scenes.
- Kerry McGillis(Charlie) is taller than Tom Cruise.
Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Fight Club
- Brad Pitt says he didn’t want his parents to see the movie, but he couldn’t convince them not to watch. They changed their minds after watching the chemical burn scene.
- When Tyler and the Narrator are fighting and gather a crowd, no one intervenes, but instead look rather bemused.
- The movie’s line “The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club” was 27 of “The 100 Greatest Movie Lines” by Premiere in 2007.
- Atleast one Starbucks cup is visible in every scene.
- Russell Crowe was the initial choice for the role of Tyler Durden.
Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Shawshank Redemption
- When Andy is making his escape, he crawls through a sewer tunnel filled with grotesque effluvia. The sludge was actually a mixture of chocolate syrup, sawdust and water, and even decades later the pipes still smell like cocoa.
- The scene where Andy first approaches Red about the rock hammer as Red plays catch in the main yard took nine hours to shoot.
- Morgan Freeman’s son, Alfonso Freeman, has two notable cameos in the film.
- The interior shots of Shawshank State Prison were taken on a set built from scratch.
- In the original novella, Red is described as a middle-aged Irishman.
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Oil Pastels
- Oil pastels consist of pigment mixed with a non-drying oil and wax binder.
- They do not dry by oxidation, they harden over time.
- Almost any surface will work for an oil pastel substrate- canvas, wood panel, paper etc.
- They become soft at a temperature of 80 and above.
- Paper towels or a hand towel are used for wiping off messy sticks.
Saturday, 2 August 2014
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Snickers
- 15 million Snickers bars are manufactured every day.
- Snickers traditionally have around 16 peanuts in each bar .
- In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Snickers was sold under the brand name Marathon until 1990.
- The name Snickers came from a favorite horse of the Mars family.
- In 1984 Snickers was the Official Snack Food sponsor of the Olympics in Los Angeles.
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Ferrero Rocher
- Official opening of Ferrero company, in Alba, Italy with 50 employees.
- 4.6 billion Ferrero Rocher are produced each year and sold in more than 130 countries across 5 continents.
- The hazelnut found at the heart of every Ferrero Rocher, is specially chosen for its size to ensure the best possible flavour.
- Michele Ferrero assumed leadership of Ferrero, following the death of his father Pietro and his uncle Giovanni in 1950.
- It was launched in UK in 1982.
Random : 5 things you didn't know about M&M
- M&Ms came into existence when Forrest Mars Sr. visited Spain during the civil war and noticed that the soldiers were eating sugar coated snacks.
- In 1954, when the candies were popular among the public, the founder added color to the sugar-coated candy.
- The red color M&Ms were removed in 1976 because the red dye used to color the candy was not FDA approved.
- Mars noticed that the candy did not melt in the hands hence in the slogan - "'Milk Chocolate Melts In Your Mouth, Not In Your Hands'.
- Green is the most popular color for M&M. It is considered to be the female and all the other colors are considered as male.
Random : 5 things you didn't know about Hershey
- Mr. Hershey opened his first candy business at the age of 18.
- The caramel that made him famous was called the “Crystal A” caramel.
- He settled in Derry Township because he needed cows for fresh milk, hard-working people and a source of water.
- Hershey makes more than 80 MILLION Hershey Kisses brand chocolates every day at its chocolate factories in Hershey and Virginia.
- The street lamps in Hershey, PA are shaped like Hershey Kisses.
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