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Random Factoid: Pura Vida

Shim — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:38:26 +0000

Costa Rica’s unofficial motto “Pura Vida” literally translates to “Pure Life”, but is often used in everyday conversation to say “Cool” or “Everything’s awesome!”

But the phrase isn’t another of the many tiquismos, or Costa Rican slang terms. It’s believed to have actually originated in Mexican movies of the 1950′s and then became wildly popular in Costa Rica.

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Random Factoid: Cheese Rings are awesome…

Shim — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:46:23 +0000

…until you expose them to air. Much like people in speedos, too much exposure makes you nasty. Yet still cheesy. Read the original article here: Random Factoid: Cheese Rings are awesome… Related posts:Random Factoid: Metal rings around palm trees Random Factoid: The Philippines is the Text Messaging Capitol of the World Random Factoid: Pura Vida

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Random Factoid: The Philippines is the Text Messaging Capitol of the World

Kelly — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:39:10 +0000

Filipinos send on average 20 text messages per day, compared to the US. average of 11. Last year on New Year’s Eve alone, mobile users in the Philippines sent 1.39 billion text messages from a subscriber base of just 50 million.

Statistics for 2007. Source: Reuters

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Random Factoid: Bring earplugs when traveling to the Philippines.

Shim — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:32:07 +0000

I’ve heard that there may be as many as 15 million roosters per year used for cockfighting. No, I can’t confirm these number by anything other than estimating the cacophony of cock-a-doodling at dawn each morning.

Thankfully, we’re not in a rural farming district and we’re also not in an urban center which is surprisingly louder. Still, we have neighbours we can’t convince to make chicken soup.

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Random Factoid: San Miguel makes good, cheap beer.

Shim — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:15:59 +0000

How cheap you ask? Well, at today’s exhcange rate of 39 Philippine Pesos for 1 Canadian Dollar, it’s a mere $0.71 for a can of Pale Pilsen from the supermarket. Now the question isn’t my beer budget. It’s how many situps I need to do to burn off 6 cans of beer. :)

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Random Factoid: Metal rings around palm trees

Shim — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:17:47 +0000

The metal band around a palm tree is to stop rodents from climbing the tree to eat the palm fruit. We initially thought it might be to assist climbing for harvesting or to keep the tree skinnier as it grows… Apparently not. :)

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