Do you have an interesting fact?

Question

Some small fact with big impact that not a lot of people may know?

love em! Thanks!

Answer 1

That when certain trees feel (?) that there numbers are becoming too low, they secrete a chemical into their seeds making it impossible for the birds to digest them, which they can usually do. So when the bird scoots one out his boot, it is whole and thus, becomes a tree. Aspen (popular) trees and partridge (grouse) are known to do this.

Answer 2

The first data used to justify putting flouride in the water came from Oak Ridge, Tn, where they processed uranium for nuclear bombs. The employees had a lot fewer cavities after working there.

They lost all of their teeth from the flouride exposure.

Answer 3

Yes, which is that there are subliminal messages in almost everything you see and here every single day...in magazines, in department stores (over the speakers telling you quietly not steal, yes its true), on tv (INCLUDING in children's cartoons such as spongebob, pokemon, etc), in movies, on your computer, in your favorite songs....etc. That enable you to behave certain ways, buy certain things and so on....businesses make billions of dollars from taking over your mind. America makes me sick. Alot of people know about this but they dont know that these messages are literally EVERYWHERE and they dont even know.

Answer 4

hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards. I know that doesn't have a big impact but I read it on a snapple cap.

Answer 5

Supposedly margarine is only one ingredient short of being the same composition of plastic!

mmmmmmm


here's another
City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks.

Answer 6

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime while sleeping.

Answer 7

don't stick jawbreakers in the microwave! saw it on mythbusters. if you stick a jawbreaker in the microwave and bite it it will explode on you and burn you terribly. they way it works is that when you stick it in the microwave it heats the candy from within. so the candy gets all hot like molten lava. then explodes from the pressure of biting it.

Answer 8

Men cannot pick up on other people emotions as well as woman can. Also, woman are not overly emotional...men are just desensitized due to brain chemistry.

Answer 9

i don't know about the impact but did you know that Hawaii is the only US state that produces coffee?

Answer 10

Jamaican Blue Mountain Peak Coffee is the best quality coffee in the world.

The mountains themselves actually appear to be Blue in Colour and can be seen anywhere in the Island giving the illusion of being in a valley protected by a circle of Mountains.

This is why most Jamaicans get very homesick the first time they travel or when they migrate to another Country until they see a mountain and then they become less anxious.

The average height of the mountains is 4,500 feet with the highest peak at 7,402 feet.

(Hikers can see Cuba from Blue Mountain)

The higher elevation, along with the rain and soil conditions, makes ideal growing conditions for the Arabica plant. The plant takes longer to mature, and provides a smaller yield, but the crop is by far the best coffee in the world, many say.

Since 1973 only coffee processed by Wallenford Plantation and three other processors can legally be termed Blue Mountain Coffee, certified as grown in a legally defined area from which Blue Mountain Coffees have been exported for over 200 years.
Interestingly enough, in addition, Blue Mountain Coffee has less than half the caffeine of regular gourmet coffee.

Jamaica grows other types of coffee which are all of good quality but Blue Mountain Coffee has won many awards and is rated as the best Coffee in the World and it's very expensive because it can only be grown in small batches and is allowed to mature longer in the cool temperature on the mountains.

Is it truly the world’s best coffee? Any answer is
subjective but there are many who have stood tall and declared their allegiance. Among the champions was
author Ian Fleming. Fleming, who lived part time in Jamaica, would not allow his literary hero (and man of taste),
James Bond, to drink any other. As Bond sits down for breakfast in a page of "Live and Let Die," Fleming declares outright: "Blue Mountain coffee, the most delicious in the world…"

The supply is low and demand is high.

Blue Mountain tastes like no other.

Its taste is tied to geographical and climatological phenomena found only in a tiny part of Jamaica.

Jamaican coffee comes from the arabica bean, a bean which is far more fragile and flavourful
than the robusta bean.

It also contains less caffeine than Robusta coffee.


The harvest of Blue Mountain coffee is laborious and occurs only when the beans, or cherries as they are properly called, are ripe.

They are literally hand-picked.

One at a time.

Coffee is not native to Jamaica.

Or the Caribbean for that matter.

Its origins lie in Yemen and it was carried across the globe by Europeans.

Folklore has it that Louis XV of France sent three plants to Martinique in 1723.

Two plants died en route and the lone surviving plant ended up in Jamaica.


From that, the coffee industry now owes its heritage.


In 1953 the government decreed that only coffee grown in a specific region of the mountain range, and processed by four estates (Mavis Bank, Silver Hill, Moy Hall and the Government Station at Wallenford) could be certified as 100 percent Blue Mountain coffee.


Any other Jamaican coffee would be graded as, High Mountain or Low-Land coffee.

Jamaican coffee held a solid niche in the gourmet coffee market. But, in 1988 Jamaica was again pounded by a violent storm. Hurricane Gilbert , packing 150-mph winds, damaged 70 percent of the fields and factories, practically shutting down production for two years. Only recently has production been restored to former levels. Identifying marks on all Blue Mountain coffee packages, assuring the premier quality, are part of the quality-control system established by the Coffee Industry Board. Package labels indicate if it is a blend or 100 percent.

Because of its cost, you will not find Blue Mountain coffee served in all island hotels and restaurants. However, you can buy brand-name coffee such as Country Traders in local shops for considerably less than in the U.S. Until then, the original question remains. Is it the world’s best coffee? Savour a cup of your own. Surely you’ll agree with 007.

Japan buys 80 percent of the Jamaican Blue Mountain Peak Coffee.

Native Jamaicans cannot afford to drink Blue Mountain Peak Coffee nor is it available.

The demand always far exceeds the supply.

Many other famous brands/blends mix a little of Jamaican Blue Mountain Peak Coffee into their own Coffee to improve the flavour and quality.

In 1997, the retail price of Blue Mountain coffee in Japan ranged from US$ 100 to $130 per kilogram compared to $20 to $40 for the blended Blue Mountain coffee. The blend is governed by Japanese regulations and must contain at least 30% of Jamaican coffee once the Blue Mountain name is used.

The figures show the increasing trend in production of Blue Mountain coffee and reveal the need for more lowland coffee. The Japanese companies are now forced to use Blue Mountain in their blends with Colombian and Brazilian coffee due to the shortage.
Reference:
The Gleaner, Sunday 8th June-1997, pages 8 and 11A.