The most expensive coffee on earth ($300-$600 a pound), called kopi luwak, is made from beans passed through the digestive system of a civet, a cat-like creature found on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The cat feasts on ripe coffee cherries then passes them through its system, after which they are gathered and roasted like other coffee beans. The coffee is said to be like no other, and has a rich flavor with hints of caramel and chocolate.
One-third of the world's population is infected with Tuberculosis.
TB kills 8,000 people every day -- it is also the biggest killer of people who are HIV-positive. It's spread through aerosol droplets which are expelled in a cough, sneeze, or spit.
A python in the Everglades split itself in half after trying to eat a live 6-foot alligator.
The 13-foot Burmese python was found with the gator's hindquarters protruding from its midsection. Pythons are not native to the Everglades -- rather, they have been introduced via pet owners who abandoned their pythons.
The subway in London, more commonly known as the Underground or "tube" in London, has 970,000,000 passengers each year. That is over 3 times the population of the entire US.
Each train on the tube travels the distance from London to Syndey, Australia seven times a year.
1 out of every 8 pounds in England is spent at Tesco's,
the largest supermarket in the UK.
Tesco claims 12.3% of the total retail market in the UK. It has been on a rampage since 1995, when
it overtook Sainsbury to become the UK's largest supermarket. Tesco was
founded in 1924.
Cognitive scientists make a distinction between short-term, or working memory, and long-term, or secondary memory. Research suggests that generally only seven items can be stored for about a minute in short-term memory, whereas long-term memory is limitless.
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