If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and then dropped a brick down it, it would take 45 minutes for the brick to hit the bottom.
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Bill Bryson, A Really Short History of Nearly Everything… Read More
During the sixteenth century, cocoa was a drink reserved for Spanish royalty. In 1579, some English pirates searching for gold aboard a Spanish ship mistook the cocoa beans for sheep droppings, and burned the valuable cargo.