THE rice cake makers of Calasiao, Pangasinan made it to the Guinness World Records (GWR) creating “the largest rice cake photo mosaic.’’
The 208-sqm puto mosaic, presented on Dec. 8, 2017, is made of 300,000 different puto cakes, in various hues, prepared by 100 puto makers from the town. The mosaic shows a father feeding a child with puto.
The previous record was held by Japan.
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The all-time favorite Christmas carol “Silent Night” is now 200 years old.
The song was first performed on Dec. 24, 1818, at St. Nicholas church in Obendorf, a small town near the city of Salzburg in Austria.
The song is credited to Franz Gruber, a teacher, and the then new parish priest of the village, Father Joseph Mohr.
It was created one cold, snowy Christmas eve.
The lyrics of “Silent Night” began as a poem Mohr had written years prior, called “Stille Nacht.” Mohr asked Gurber to compose a melody for the poem, and thus was born the classic Christmas carol.
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TRIVIA PA MORE (Various Sources):
The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.
The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
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