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Soya sauce

Outside of Asia, soya sauce was first sold in the Netherlands
The Kikkoman soy sauce bottle design was invented by a Japanese sailor.
The designer, Kenji Ekuan was awarded the 2003 Lucky Strike Designer Awards and is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Soya sauce contains 10 times the anti-oxidants found in red wine
Soya sauce takes 6 months to make

Toy Story was orignally called ‘You Are a Toy’
The Pizza Planet delivery truck, which appears in every Pixar film except The Incredibles, also appeared in all three Toy Story films
In their most productive state, Pixar can complete 3.5 minutes of animation a week
Jim Carey was originally casted to voice Buzz Lightyear but Pixar could not afford his fees
Pixar had 300 computers rendering frames 24 hours a day
When an animator is done with a shot (he/she has watched it an average of 3,000 times!), John Lasseter tells them to go pick out a toy as a reward. The number of toys on an animator’s desk demonstrates his prowess.
Buzz Lightyear was first named Lunar Larry
Mattel didn’t want Barbie to be in the movie, thinking it was going to be a flop
The voice of the little green aliens were made with the use of helium gas
The number 95 is seen throughout the movies, referring to the year 1995 when the film was first released
In Andy’s room, some books were names of Pixar’s short films or Pixar staff
Toy Story 3 is the first animation to hit over $1 billion dollars in sales
Andy’s car reads A111 on the front and A113 on the back
The entire animation crew shaved their heads prior to working on Toy Story 3
Andy didn’t have a dad in Toy Story because humans were to expensive to animate

Armadillos always give birth to four identical babies. All four develop from the same egg, like quadruplets
The shell of a baby armadillo is as soft as a human fingernail. As they grow, bone gets deposited under the skin to harden it.
After sex, an armadillo can delay impregnation for up to 2 years
Armadillos like to swim and can even dive underwater. They can hold their breath for over 5 minutes.
They can also climb up fences and trees
Not all armadillos can curl into a ball. Only the 3 banded armadillo can do it.
The USA has the only species of Armadillo that live outside of Latin America.
Armadillos sleep up to 16 hours a day
The word Armadillo in Spanish means “little armoured one”
Armadillos have poor eyesight and so can be easily startled while foraging.
A pound of Armadillo meat contain 780 calories

The first message sent via Morse Code was “What hath God wrought?”
The Morse Code distress signal “SOS” was initially “CQD” (“sécu” of sécurité) and means “All stations: distress.”
The first distress code was sent 60 years after its invention and 30 years after the death of its creator Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse was a supporter of slavery

Daylight saving was created by a New Zealander entomologist
Daylight Saving Time (DST) was fist implemented during World War I by the Germans
When it first started, Daylight Savings Time was also called ‘Summer Time’
Some countries like Iceland, Belarus and Russia have switched to ‘Permanent Daylight Saving Time’ (staying on Summer Time all year long)

Smurfs are Belgian
The smurf comics were created after a misunderstanding over salt
Smurfs are said to be “three apples tall”
The smurf franchise generates about $10 million in royalties annually and are worth about $4 billion
Smurfette was created by Gargamel and was originally a brunette
Smurfs were the first to introduce the zombie movie theme to the world in the episode “The purple smurfs”. This was 6 years before ‘The night of the living dead’
A petrol station in the US once had the slogan ‘service with a smurf’
Their creator Peyo, doesn’t like Smurfette
The book that Brainy smurf was always writing is called ‘Quotations by Brainy Smurf’
There are a total of 103 smurfs
Smurfs were once linked to Communism, Ku Klux Klan and even Neo Nazisim. All of which are untrue
Smurfs turn purple when they hold their breath
The world record for the most people dressed as smurfs happend in Swansea in 2009
A lot of smurfs from the comics never made it to the cartoon; Timid Smurf, Enamored Smurf, Finance Smurf

A German anthropologist once divided the human race into five groups based on their skull shape: Caucasians, Malayans, Mongolians, Ethiopian and American

Truffles were first discovered by pigs
The ancient Greeks thought that truffles were made when lightning struck damp soil
Pigs are used to find truffles because truffles produce a sex pheromone almost identical to that found in a male pig’s saliva
Contrary to belief, truffle oil only contains tiny amounts of truffle
The most expensive truffle sold for over £28,000