Women who breastfeed their children spend around 500 kcal per day on this.
How did the word tourist come about?
The word tourist was used in Danish before 1850 (e.g. by Heiberg and Henrik Hertz). It was first used officially by the League of Nations (forerunner of the UN) in 1937. Here the word was defined as a term for people who travel outside the country’s borders for a period of more than 24 hours.
How many plant species are there in the Copenhagen Botanical Garden?
There are 13,000 different plant species in the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen, in comparison, there are approximately 11,000 different plant species in the wild in Europe.
What is special about the spore frog?
Spore frogs are farsighted and can’t see things closer than about 7 cm
Did you fight with airplanes at the start of the war?
In the early months of the war, aerial combat between aircraft was an unknown phenomenon.
Why does the baker icon have a crown on the pretzel?
Most bakeries have a sign shaped like a pretzel with a crown. The crown was added to the pretzel after Frederik III was satisfied with the bakers’ ability to maintain production during the siege of Copenhagen in 1658-59.
Who invented marzipan?
No one knows who invented marzipan, but it was either an Italian baker’s daughter who accidentally put almonds in a bread mix, or Franz Marcip from Germany who was a chef in the 1700s.
The news of the origin of life
If the news of the emergence of life on Earth 3 billion years ago had been immediately sent out into the universe at the speed of light, it would not yet have traveled more than 1/3 of the distance to the most distant galaxies in the universe.
How did David Letterman start his TV career?
David Letterman started his TV career as a weatherman over the weekend on an Indianapolis TV station.
