Did You Know ?

1. Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.

Perhaps not to be recommended!

A much safer way to burn 150 calories is to take your dog for a 45-minute walk. However, if you don’t have a dog, a slow-paced walk for 53 minutes will also burn off the same amount of calories.

2. Crows often hold grudges against specific people.

Yes, Crows are excellent at recognizing people’s faces and are able to remember people for a long time! This can be either a negative or positive fact, depending on how nice you are to them. While crows can tell us apart, would you be able to distinguish one crow from another? I think most of us would have difficulty with this.

3. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill 50 bathtubs!

Goodness!
The average person produces roughly one ounce (30 ml) of saliva every hour. That’s 24.3 ounces (720 ml) or one full wine bottle’s worth of saliva a day, which is an average of 69 gallons (263 liters) per year.

With the average global life expectancy being about 72 years, this means that you produce an average of 4,968 gallons (18,936 liters) of saliva in your lifetime – enough to fill 50 bathtubs!

4. Recycling just one tin can saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours.

That’s how important recycling is! In fact, recycling an aluminum can into a new one takes only 5% of the energy required to produce one normally.

The average person has the chance to recycle 25,000 cans in their lifetime – that’s 75,000 hours of television!

5. Pound cake got its name because the original recipe contained a pound of butter, sugar, flour, and eggs.

The simple measurements made the recipe easy to remember. Few people could read back then, so an easy-to-remember recipe was key.

The earliest recipe for pound cake is found in the English cook book The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse, published in 1747. The first U.S. cookbook, American Cookery, published in 1796, also has a recipe for pound cake.

One pound of each ingredient would’ve made the cake big enough to feed multiple families. The portions were adjusted over time to make the cakes smaller and lighter, but the name stayed the same.

Of course now there are lower carb versions like this Cream Cheese Pound Cake which uses almond flour, more details here or this one here that uses coconut flour

I hope you enjoyed these five facts - did you know any of them?

Do please share your thoughts in the comments.

~ good wishes for the remainder of this month ~

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All the best Jan