Philippines - Facts and other Trivia

     How much do we know about our country? Sometimes we claim our nationality but has very little knowledge about its facts. There are moments that foreign people would ask us something very simple question about our country but takes us forever to answer them. Even I admit to this.

     Here are some few interesting facts that our teacher's thought us during school days but we might already forgot.

TODAY!! - July 1

     It's already the first month of the second half of the year.. So, what's happening in July???

     

Did you know that....

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1) It's United States National Hot Dog Month... also, the 5-digit zip code was introduced by the U.S. Postal Service in 1963.

2) Canada is celebrating it's Canada Day. It is the confederation of Upper and Lower Canada and Canada commemorates this event every year. John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of the federal Government which was formed by the British North American Act.

3) Burundi is celebrating their Independece day

4) It is Rwanda's Independence day, too .

5) Ghana has their Republic Day

6) Suriname is celebrating Liberation Day

7) I'ts Pamela Anderson's 45th Birthday...

8) Celine Dion's "Because you Loved Me" was the number 1 adult hit song.

9) Thailand celebrates a Mid Year Day...

10) Philippine Bill of 1902 was established, also known as Philippine Assembly headed by Sergio Osmenia.

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Coffee TRiviA

These are some little facts coffee lover - or even not lover but – want to know. I hope you learn something from these :D

• The name coffee comes from the Arabic word qahwah, meaning wine, and not from the town of Kaffa, in Ethiopia (Abyssinia), as many writers have supposed.

• There are twenty-four steps in the "Coffee Process".

• Our knowledge of coffee is about 1,000 years old.


• Coffee was first mentioned in literature by Rhazes, an Arabian physician.

• The use of coffee as a beverage is about 700 years old.

• The most severe punishment for drinking coffee was being sewn into a leather bag and tossed alive into the sea.

• Pope Clement VIII was the first to baptize coffee and make it a true Christian beverage.

• "Coffee Smellers" were discharged wounded soldiers employed as spies to "smell out" unlicensed coffee roasting during the coffee monopoly in Germany.

• Goats actually discovered the coffee plant. Their shepherd noticed that they were getting very hyper; therefore, one day, he followed their every move, and found out that they were eating a strange berry that was keeping them awake all day and night.

• Monks used coffee to stay awake and concentrate on what they were doing.

This little facts I have written down here were copied from a blog I have forgotten the site..LOLz..sorry..and thank you..:D *peace*