There are many interesting facts about peanuts. You may be surprised at some of the following tid bits of information. Share them with friends and family and see there reactions, too!
*• Approximately half of the peanuts grown in the United States are grown within a 100-mile radius of Dothan, Alabama.
*• Alabama has 1,400 peanut farmers who employ an additional 2,500 full-time employees.
*• The National Peanut Festival, the nation's.largest peanut festival, is held each fall in Dothan Alabama to honor peanut growers.
*• Americans consume 700 million pounds or 3.3 pounds per person, of peanut butter per year….that's enough to coat the floor of the
Grand Canyon.
*• There are approximately 810 peanuts in an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.
*• The United States produces four basic.varieties of peanuts: Runner, Virginia, Spanish and Valencia. Each type is distinctive in size and flavor. Runners are grown mainly in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Oklahoma. Brundidge, Alabama hosts the annual.Brundidge Peanut Butter Festival in October. For more information,
call (334) 735-2385.
*• The peanut is unusual because it flowers above the ground, but fruits below the ground.
*• By law, any product labeled "peanut butter" in the United States must be at least 90% peanuts.
*• Nearly half of the United States peanut crop is used to make peanut butter.
*• In the U.S., annual peanut production (about 1.5 million tons per year) often exceeds the production of beans and peas combined.
*• Worldwide, about 2/3 of the crop is processed for peanut oil.
*• 20% of the world's peanut production is used in candy.
*• Peanut oil accounts for 8% of the world sedible oil production.
*• Peanuts are also called goobers, goober peas, pindars, ground nuts, earth nuts, monkey nuts, and grass nuts.
*• Peanuts are members of the pea family.
*• Georgia is the largest producer of peanuts in the U.S.
*• The first peanuts grown in the United States were grown in Virginia.
*• Americans eat 3 pounds of peanut butter per person every year. That's about 700 million pounds, or enough to coat the floor
of the Grand Canyon!
*• Peanuts may be a favorite food, but we've found many uses for their shells too! You might find peanut shells in kitty litter wallboard, fireplace logs, paper, animal feed and sometimes as fuel for power plants!
*• Two peanut farmers have been elected President of the United States: Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter.
*• One acre of peanuts will make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
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Lloyd's insures Ugly Betty star's smile for $10 million. The $10 million smile: Ugly Betty star America Ferrera's smile has been insured at Lloyd's. Lloyd’s has insured the smile of America Ferrera, star of the hit television show Ugly Betty, for $10 million.
The policy was bought by at home teeth- whitening product Aquafresh White Trays as part of a promotion involving the celebrity
which aims to raise money for US charity Smiles for Success. Wendy Baker, President, Lloyd’s America,
helped to ‘unveil’ the Ugly Betty actress as the star behind the smile promotion at a ceremony
in New York City yesterday.
She said: “Lloyd’s, as the world’s leading, specialist insurance market, has more than 300 years' experience devising innovative insurance policies for unique risks – and insuring celebrity body parts is one of them. That's why, when our underwriters were approached
to insure America's smile for $10 million, they were happy to devise a policy that fitted the
bill." Miss Ferrera, who plays Betty Suarez in the hit US show, is the latest in a long line of celebrities to be insured at the world’s leading,
specialist insurance market. Lloyd’s has insured Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards’ fingers; Marlene Dietrich’s legs; and, according to one history book, actress Bette Davis once insured her waistline against expansion. An underwriter was once even approached to.insure an un-named celebrity’s chest hair..The insurance coverage was placed through Lloyd's broker Glencairn Limited on behalf of
Hanleigh Management Inc, based in Montvale, New Jersey.
Miss Ferrera said: “Thank you to Aquafresh White Trays and Lloyd’s of London for insuring my smile, I’ll try my hardest to take care of it.
It’s very flattering to have my smile insured for $10 million, it’s not something that I ever imagined happening.”
The color of wealth, success and status The color gold is the color of success, achievement and triumph. Associated with abundance and prosperity, luxury and quality prestige and sophistication, value and elegance, the psychology of this color implies affluence material wealth and extravagance.
Gold in its physical state, by its very nature, denotes wealth and prestige in every country,
culture and market in the world today - it is probably the most valuable and easily traded commodity available in the global market place.
This color is linked to masculine energy and the power of the sun, compared to silver which is associated with feminine energy and the sensitivity of the moon.
Optimistic and positive, gold adds richness and warmth to everything with which it is associated - it illuminates and enhances other
things around it. At the uppermost level, this is a color which is associated with higher ideals, wisdom, understanding and enlightenment. It inspires knowledge, spirituality and a deep
understanding of the self and the soul.
In the meaning of colors, gold is generous and giving.compassionate and loving, the
benefactor or patron, sharing its wisdom, knowledge and wealth with others. Gold is the color of the winner - first place medals are always in gold, silver is second
place.
Confident, passionate and eye-catching, gold draws attention to itself. Gold is a warm color that can be shiny, glistening and happy as well as dull, muted and traditional. The brighter shades of gold catch
the eye with their brilliance while the darker muted shades are deep, warm and intense. Gold has long been associated with royalty
throughout the world, along with purple. Being surrounded by too much gold can lead you to become egotistical, self-righteous and
opportunistic in your quest for greater power and influence.
If living under the negative of the color gold, you may not trust easily, have a fear of success and wealth, or even exhibit a fear of failure. You may be selfish and demanding, lacking kindness and generosity, even to the extreme of being miserly.
If your favorite color is gold, it will reflect in your personality! Personality color gold will give you more information on this. If you are thinking of using gold in a business application, read about the meanings of colors in business.
As one might expect, Google continues to lead the pack in most countries by a large margin.
In 1997, Yahoo turned down the chance to buy Google for $1 million. Dramatically, today google is worth $200 billion, Yahoo just $20 billion. However, as a world-wide search
engine, Google had already been struggling in Asian market.
The data base below is the “Search Engine Market Share BY Country
2013.” There are 31 countries in the data base.
Google is the leader search engine in most countries, except China, Japan, Russia, and.South Korea.
It’s been more than two and a half years since Google left the Chinese search market, and the market share for its search and maps segments has continued to wane. The photo below shows the search engines in China. Google’s market
share continue decrease from 5.1% in Dec 2012 to 1.6 in Dec 2013..Why Google met so many trouble to get into the Chinese market?
The biggest fact is culture differences. The way Chinese citizen search for content online
differs significantly from the way people source information in the West. In China, the average age for search is 25, the west is 35;
In China, the focus on result page are widespread, covering whole page, however, in west, people more focus on upper left part of
page; In China, the popular search device is Mobile phone, in west, people more like using desktop or laptop. The search method is also
different. In China, people prefer to choose from list, in west, people prefer to type in key word. Thus, if Google still didn’t take its user
behaviors into account, it will hard to get into Asian market.
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On April 12th, 1976, one of three co-founders of Apple Computer sold his 10% stake in the company for $2,300. Ronald Wayne says he
made the “best decision with the information available to me at the time” when he chose to sell his shares in the emerging technology
firm. Unlike counterparts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Wayne had capital on the line and stood to lose his assets if Apple went
under. Had he retained his full stake in Apple to this day, it would currently be worth nearly
$60 billion. Wayne went on to enjoy a long career as an engineer with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other
firms, Wired reports, and he later opened a stamp shop before retiring to Pahrump, Nevada. Apple is currently the most valuable company in the world and as of Wednesday’s close, the company’s market capitalization
totalled just under $585 billion.
Are sheep too smart for their own good, or are they just plain dumb? We’ll let you be the judge of that after you have read this bizarre
yet slightly fascinating story. As Turkish shepherds watched on whilst their herd of sheep grazed, one sheep decided that it had enough of the world and jumped to its death. It doesn’t stop there though…
As the stunned Turkish shepherds looked on, their herd of sheep one by one followed the initial sheep’s actions and jumped to their death as well – a nearly whopping 1,500 of them!
It was reported that in the end, 450 sheep died after the mass suicide jump. They were able to save quite a few as those who jumped later were saved as the pile of sheep got higher, therefore the pile became more cushioned.
Unfortunately, this mass suicide of sheep had an estimated loss to families of $100,000 – a very significant amount of money as the
average GDP per head is around the figure of $2,700
