Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in siberia.Tea bricks were made into beverages or eaten as food also.
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“Fortnight” is a contraction of ‘fourteen nights. In the USA ‘two weeks’ is more commonly used.
I for one get strange looks here, in the US, when I suggest we have lunch together every fortnight. As an Aussie this is common language to us.
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Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
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M&M’s chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
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Tennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia – more than any other in the US
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The ‘King Ranch’ in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. sprawls across 825000 acres of South Texas land.
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