Thursday, December 6, 2007
Fritz Knipschildt is the founder of Knipschildt Chocolatier in 1999 and currently holds the title for the most-expensive chocolate called Chocopologie. The rich dark chocolate truffle contains a French black truffle inside its seventy percent Valrhona cacao that is blended into a creamy ganache with truffle oil and dusted in cocoa powder. Individual Chocopologie pieces costs $250.00 !!!THIS IS CRAZY !!!
anyway...here's something interesting....a email frm a friend : 28 fun facts that you would never think of...
- The person who did the voice of E.T. was Debra Winger.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- The NFL needs 3000 cows each year to get enough leather for all the balls.
- Around 1/3 of the people who use the dating adds in the news paper are already married.
- The most valuable brand names are Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser.
- A cow will go up stairs but not downstairs.
- Humans are the only primates that do not have pigments on the palm of their hands.
- 1/10 of the Russian budget comes from the sale of vodka.
- The longest word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
- The longest word that can be typed with only the left hand is "Stewardesses".
- A ball in a major league baseball game usually is only used 7 times.
- The plane that Buddy Holly was in when he died was called "American Pie".
- In a deck of cards you have 4 types of kings: Spades, Clubs, Hearts and Diamonds. These cards all represent great kings from the past.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
- The longest time for a chicken to fly for is 13 seconds.
- The word Jeep cam from the army. It was “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.
- In Pennsylvania, the highest point is lower then the lowest point in Colorado.
- Nutmeg is poisonous if you inject it.
- Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
- A raisin in a glass of champagne will keep on diving and raising to the surface.
- Snails can sleep for 3 years without food.
- A koalas fingerprints are nearly identical to human finger prints.
- If you are in a air tight room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.
- Animals will not eat another animal that has been struck by lightning.
- The saying "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" comes from Ancient Rome. Back then when they did wrestling the only rule was “No eye gouging”.
- A Jiffy is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- Most people fall asleep in 7 minutes.
- Frogs can be frozen and then thawed and still be alive.
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