In the 1800's, rum was considered excellent for cleaning hair and keeping it healthy. Brandy was believed to strengthen hair roots.
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It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
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Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry!
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It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.
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You can overdose on caffeine.
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For clean fruit, fill a bowl with water (or, for bigger batches, use a clean sink), add 1 cup of vinegar, and stir. Add fruit and leave to soak for 10 minutes. The water will be dirty and the fruit will be sparkly clean with no wax or dirty film.
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By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
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A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
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