CALUMS Newsletter Spring 2014

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Did You Know? In our busy day-to-day life between school, work, and other activities, we don’t find much time to learn or read interesting facts about the food we eat, our health, interesting places, our history, or other fascinating facts and things that are happening around us. The Pipleline editorial team has compiled some interesting and fascinating tidbits from various sources. Have you read or heard about any of these?

Food

If you put a piece of pineapple somewhere in your mouth it will start eating you. It has proteins that degrade meat.

Do you know a medium size coke container has 23 sachets of sugar and a large cup contains around 44 sachets of sugar?

Health The rumbling noise stomach is called mus”. It is not a sign it’s caused by your “housecleaning”

from your “Borborygof hunger; intestines

Places Taiwan has become the first country in the world to offer free Wi-Fi to its citizens and all its foreign tourists.

Drying your hands in a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count to 45 – 60%; however, using a hand dryer will increase bacteria by 225% because it blows out bacteria already living in the warm moist environment.

Seattle is planning to build a new city park with hundreds of edible trees and plants free to anyone and everyone. If successful it will be the first “Food Forest” of the nation.

Facts Google rents goats to replace lawn mowers at their mountain view headquarters.

The Sahara is only in a dry period and is expected to be green again in 15,000 years.

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