Tour de France cyclists burn 8,000 calories a day, and the secret food of choice in the saddle is ricecakes – not dry, shop-bought ones, but moist, dense cooked rice balls fortified with cream chee
Bad smells in your fridge can be effectively absorbed by placing a sideplate of freshly ground coffee in there overnight.
Tired of your champagne going flat and losing its bubbles? Well the old adage states that if you put an upside-down metal spoon (or fork) in an open bottle of Champagne, it will help to keep the bo
Shortbread was originally classified as bread, by its Scottish bakers to avoid paying taxes that were placed on cookies.
It takes 21 pints of milk to make a pound of butter.
McDonald’s is one of the largest owners of real estate in the world and it earns the majority of its profits from collecting rent, not from selling food.
Coca-Cola first used its famous, iconic red-and-white branding back in the mid-1890s when it began painting its syrup barrels red so that tax agents could easily tell them apart from alcohol during
Potatoes can be grown on Mars, according to scientists at the International Potato Center in Peru, who have successfully grown them inside a satellite recreating the temperature, air pressure and a
Forget calling it ‘The Big Freeze’, it’s ‘The Big Cheese’.
Potatoes can absorb and reflect WiFi signals and were even used by Boeing to test their in-flight WiFi signal by putting sacks of potatoes on a seat for days at a time.
It’s not your fault if you have a sweet tooth because humans are born craving sugar.