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We don't usually think about fruit being that expensive.

But what if I told you there was a certain type of pineapple that is worth thousands of dollars?

To be fair, that wouldn't be too far off from how things were a few centuries ago.

If that's what it takes to get your hand on one of these Victorian-grown pineapples, I wouldn't hold your breath!

All its people lived inside the walls that were built by the Romans.

A tornado is a tube of violently spinning air that touches the ground.

Tornadoes can be caused by winds that have been going opposite directions with humidity.

EF0 for tornados that caused the least damage, and EF5 for the ones that caused the most.

Other tornado-like phenomena that exist in nature include the gustnado, dust devil, fire whirls, and steam devil;

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court.

The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.

Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s.

Walmart is a family-owned business that was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton in Rogers, Arkansas.

He increased the sales by 45% in the first year by offering lower prices on products that he purchased from lower cost suppliers.

It is estimated that approximately 18% of the food stamps used in the United States are spent at Walmart.

It is estimated that the WAlmart stock owned by the Waltons would fill a big backyard pool with gold if it were translated from dollars to gold.

The CPU is an electronic machine that works on a list of computer things to do, called instructions.

A list of instructions that a CPU can run is a computer program.

Modern processors often run so fast that gigahertz (GHz) is used instead.

Some other companies that make CPUs are ARM, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.

The instructions in a 32 bit CPU are good at handling data that is 32 bits in size (most instructions "think" in 32 bits in a 32 bit CPU).

Likewise, a 64 bit CPU is good at handling data that is 64 bits in size (and often good at handling 32 bit data too).

The size of data that a CPU handles best is often called the word size of the CPU.

This means that the CPU is just a single chip.

In celebration of this momentous achievement and their more than ten years in business, here are 20 Fun Facts about Airbnb, that you probably didn't know.

Airbnb was formed in San Francisco in 2008, and it's in that very city where Airbnb plays host to it's most loyal customers and fans, with the Sanfranciscan's on average spending five and half days in each property and splashing out a whopping $1,045 for their stay.

Now that's brand loyalty!

They were a roaring success, shifting thousands of units, and securing that much-needed start-up capital.

Airbnb's first year was very successful for the three founders, it changed their lives that year and kept a roof over their heads, and they only had four hundred guests!

Now that's progress!

And if that sounds impressive, one of them managed to make fifteen and a half million in just twelve months.

In the eleven years that Airbnb has been trading, they have accepted more than five hundred million guests!

While logic may dictate that the majority of people are looking for big, spacious rentals, that isn't always the case.

Now, in 2019, Airbnb has offices in thirty-four cities worldwide, giving them a global reach and customer service that spans every continent.

If a tiny garden studio or an igloo isn't for you, you will be pleased to hear that Airbnb also has some enormous properties for rent on its site.

That was an astounding 11 billion miles (17 billion kilometers) away from Earth.

It helped fix the bricks in place and bound the bricks together so tightly that weeds cannot grow in many parts.

In 1920, Karel Čapek wrote a story about them, and he used a word from Czech that is connected with 'work': robot.

The next year, it started work in a factory in New Jersey, lifting and stacking pieces of metal that were too hot for people to touch.

There are also robots that help at home, to vacuum or run a lawn mower, for example.

ASIMO is one robot that is helping scientists learn how to design and program robots.

What we do know for sure is that fermented milk was already being used in prehistoric times.

Legend tells that yogurt was discovered because a shepherd, forgetting some milk in one of these skins for a while, when he finally remembered it, found it transformed : into something denser and tastier.

The oldest writings mentioning yogurt were by Pliny the Elder, who said that some people knew how to thicken the milk into something which was sour but tasty.

Today, to produce yogurt, milk is first heated, usually to about 85 °C (185 °F), to denature the milk proteins so that they do not form curds.

The bacterial culture is mixed in, and that temperature of 45 °C is maintained for 4 to 12 hours to allow fermentation to occur.

It makes a yogurt that's thicker, creamier and tangier than regular yogurt.

The primary thing you see about Tokyo is that there is no vandalism.

There are more than 35 million residents in Tokyo that makes it largest and busiest metropolitan area in the world.

Tokyo is a city that loves its seafood.

Its name translates to cooked cream, but it is actually not cooked that much.

While many European custards get their firmness from adding eggs, gelatin makes panna cotta difficult to mess up, and eliminates the possibility that you will end up scrambling your eggs in hot custard mix.

The only thing you need know about this dessert besides the recipe is that you will need to prepare the dessert in advance so it has time to chill.

It's also a good idea to purchase ramekins so that you can create individual serving sizes.

There are other recipes for panna cotta that are more complex.

You should note that if you are a vegetarian, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy this Italian classic.

People often send secret information, and sometimes other people can steal that information.

In 2000, graffiti artist Temper was hired by Sprite to create a limited edition design in celebration of the millennium that appeared on 100 million cans distributed across Europe.

The ostrich is a large flightless bird that lives in Africa.

A computer is a machine that accepts data as input, processes that data using programs, and outputs the processed data as information.

It has to be that good if the big boys of the smartphone world are even using it, including Google, HTC, LG and Samsung to name a few.

Android is actually open-source which means that individuals have the option to modify source code of the OS and manufacturers can add features.

Of course if you are an Apple fan that is completely understandable, just look at their user base they must be doing something right as well!

They worshiped a mysterious, unnamed god that was part of Jaguar and part human.

There are many ancient statues of gods sticking out their tongues, such as Huitzilopochtli, which may be a sacred gesture that suggests their thirst for blood.

Although slavery was legal in Kentucky at that time, Lincoln's father, who was a religious Baptist, refused to own any slaves.

Later, he said that he had gone to school for just one year, but that was enough to learn how to read, write, and do simple math.

The nickname "Honest Abe" came from a time when he started a business that failed.

This is called "soccer" in North America, South Africa, and Australia to avoid confusion with other types of football that are commonly played there.

Football is played using a ball, also called a 'football', that is usually shaped like a sphere or an ellipsoid.

Today, it is the most popular sport in the world and many people watch it on television, especially the FIFA World Cup that happens every four years.

Here are 10 exciting facts about eBay that will leave you wanting to discover some of the mysteries people list online.

It wasn't until the website was getting too much traffic that he decided to launch as a business and re-branding it as eBay.

The broken laser pointer was an item laying around Omidyar's house, that he thought he would use to test out the site.

He contacted the seller to check that they realized what they had bid on, and it turned out they were a collector of broken laser pens!

That's right, the Brits use eBay the most across the world.

That's correct!

One thing that is great about eBay is that you can find everything and anything.

This was in hope that customers would not notice the gradual change over time.

Over the years there have been many items, sometimes even joke items that have reached millions but not quite as much as this one.

A British scientist and Zoologist named Simon Coppard came across the urchin and from the photo recognized that this was something new.

At the time, Coppard was working with The Natural History Museum in London and was able to confirm from the photo uploaded that the species was unidentified, making it a new discovery of sea urchin that he named Coelopleurus exquisitus.

There is no limit to the amount of items that can be for sale at once.

The exact number of items that can be listed on eBay at once before the server's crash is unclear.

In that period, thin cakes made of flour were very popular and were mostly accompanied with vegetables.

He was famous for getting so absorbed in his studies, that he forgot about social conventions.

It was once believed that eating cheese before bed could cause nightmares, but in fact it had health benefits.

People once believed the proverb that 'the moon is made of green cheese'.

That's where we come in at Nothing Familiar!

Most tour companies offer day trips that will take 9-10 hours to complete just to the north and back.

Another amazing Bali fact is that it features both black and white sand beaches!

That's Bali!

Penjor are tall decorative poles that can be seen outside Balinese homes during certain religious holidays.

In 2015, over 500 people died in traffic accidents on Bali roads with that number increasing every year.

One of the more known facts about Bali is that some of these monkeys are naughty and not nice.

Grid made the product with a fold-down display that covered the keyboard.

Grid's computer was one fifth the weight of any other computer used at that time.

Mars is often referred to as the "Red Planet" because the reddish iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance that is distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye.

It is possible that its size may eventually permit human colonies.