Trivia

Putting a brick on your tea and breast in your glass


• Wine has about the same number of calories as an equal amount of grape juice.
• A raisin cropped into a glass of champagne will repeatedly bounce up and down between the top and the bottom of the glass.
• The shallow champagne glass first originated with Marie Antoinette, from wax molds made of her breasts.
• The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929, “7” was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP” indicated the direction of the bubbles.
• A 200 ml can of soda pop contains the equivalent of an average nine teaspoons of sugar.
• The original name of Pepsi Cola was Brad’s drink.
• Green tea has 50 percent more vitamin C than black tea.
• Tea was discovered in China more than 5000 years ago.
• England’s national drink, tea, was first sold as medicinal beverage.
• A common drink for Tibetans is “butter tea” which is made out of butter, salt and brick tea.
• A drink used to be made by the Aztecs for the gods which had the ingredients of ground cocoa mixed in with spices and corn.
• For many years, the fig has been used as a coffee substitute. The fruit contains a prote-olytic enzyme that is considered an aid to digestion and is used by the pharmaneutical industry.
• Most non-dairy creamers are flammable.
• The main difference between chocolate and cocoa is the amount of fat.
• There is no legitimate definition for white chocolate; brown chocolate; contains cocoa liquor (non-alcoholic) and cocoa butter, while white chocolate contains only cocoa butter.
• The same chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of love and sexual attraction, phenylethylamine, is also found in chocolate.
• A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
• The early eating bars of chocolate were made of bittersweet chocolate. Milk chocolate was introduced in 1875 when Henry Nestle, a maker of evaporated milk, and Daniel Peter, a chocolate maker, got together and invented milk chocolate, which today is preferred by 80 percent of the world’s population.
• Honey is 80 percent sugars and 20 percent water,
• Honey has been used for millennia as a topical dressing for wounds since microbes cannot live in it. It also produces hydrogen peroxide. Honey has even been used to embalm bodies such as Alexander the Great.

----Compiled from various sources

(taken from the Jakarta Post, Trivia rubric)