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unusual facts about coconut



APCC

Asian and Pacific Coconut Community, an intergovernmental organization of coconut producing nations known as APCC

Asuncion Island

Vegetation includes Swordgrass (Miscanthus floridulus) grasslands on the upper slopes, forests of Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera), with some Pandanus trees and Papaya (Carica papaya) on the lower slopes, along with native Pisonia.

August Engelhardt

Health reformer August Moritz Engelhardt :de:August Engelhardt wrote a book called A Carefree Future in 1898, which described a colony of fruit and vegetable eaters, specifically cocoivores (coconut eaters) he was founding in the then Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in the South Pacific a place known for its headhunters.

Baye baye

A specialty of Pavia, Iloilo, it is made from grated young coconut mixed with either ground corn kernels or ground pinipig (young rice).

Caribbean Region, Colombia

A popular soup is also prepared with the head of the Sabalo, yuca, plantain, coconut milk, lime and salt.

Channarayapatna

Sugarcane is the leading commercial crop, while food crops include ragi, coconut and potato.

Choc ice

The equivalent in France for the term black outside and white inside is the Bounty, a chocolate bar consisting of coconut inside while the U.S. English equivalent is Oreo.

Coconut doughnut

Coconut doughnuts are not usually filled, but there is an unrelated coconut doughnut that uses a coconut cream filling (like a boston cream doughnut or jelly doughnuts), which Conan O'Brien reportedly had a "life-altering experience with" during a three-day visit to Toronto in 2004: "it blew my mind," O'Brien was quoted in the Toronto Star.

A mouse munching on a coconut doughnut in the window of one Riese Organization's franchised Dunkin' Doughnut outlets in Midtown Manhattan became infamous in 1998 and was included on the front page of The New York Post.

Coconut production in the Philippines

In 1975 the PCA acquired a bank, renamed the United Coconut Planters Bank, to service the needs of coconut farmers, and the PCA director, Eduardo Cojuangco, a business associate of Marcos, became its president.

Coconut Records

Acts that have been signed to Coconut have included Bad Boys Blue, C. C. Catch, Haddaway, Londonbeat, Chyp-Notic, The Searchers, Soultans, the Weather Girls, Rammstein and Modern Talking.

Coconut timber

The pioneering work on coconut timber was conducted by Australian company Pacific Green, which advised the 1997 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization study into Coconut Palm Stems.

Coconut timber supplied by Pacific Green is to be used in exterior applications throughout Abu Dhabi's Masdar City development, including the entrance gates, screens and doors.

Coconut water

The Documentation Center of Cambodia has cited the practice of allowing untrained nurses to administer coconut water infusions in its list of medical practices for which the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

Cocos Buff-banded Rail

On North Keeling the Rails occupy all the limited ground habitats on the island, including the shore of the lagoon and the understorey vegetation of Pisonia forest and Coconut palms.

Donovan's Reef

The home of the French island governor, the white beach house with coconut palms and surrounding grass lawn, is the Allerton Estate home and former summer residence of Hawaiian Queen Emma near Poipu Beach, now a part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden (without the scenes of boats and canoes on the Wailua River, which were edited and merged with scenes filmed at the Allerton Estate).

Erechthias flavistriata

Larvae have been recorded feeding on banana, coconut and other palms, Pandanus species, pineapple and sugarcane.

Family names in North Karnataka

Surnames drawn from Food Items are Balikai (Banana), Bendikai (Okra), Bellolli (Garlic), ULLagaDDi (Onion), MeNasinakai (Chilli), Tenginakai (Coconut), Byali (Pulse/Dal), Tuppa (Ghee), Palle (Vegetable), Guggari (Boiled Food grains), Churamari (Bhel), Sajji (A type of Food grain), Akki (Rice), Jola (Jawar)

Filled milk

The issue of filled milk came to the forefront in United States v. Carolene Products Co. wherein Carolene Products Co. was indicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois for violation of the Act by the shipment in interstate commerce of certain packages of "Milnut," a compound of condensed skimmed milk and coconut oil made in imitation or semblance of condensed milk or cream.

Founders Brewing Company

2011: Galactic, Rubblebucket, Terrapin Flyer with Melvin Seals, The Ragbirds, Steppin' In It, AB & Coconut Brown, FBC All-Stars (All-Founders-Employee Supergroup), DJ Spydre Murphy

Galle Face Hotel

Radio Ceylon recorded music programmes from the Coconut Grove as well as the Galle Face Hotel itself, presented by some of the popular Radio Ceylon announcers in the 1950s and 1960s, such as Livy Wijemanne and Vernon Corea.

Glen Michael

In the episode, Michael receives a coconut and some flowers in the mail (in an attempt to recreate the Nintendo game Animal Crossing) and sends a thankful letter in response.

Hatiya Upazila

The main exports include rice, coconut, betel nut, banana, betel leaf, chili, Hilsa, and other types of fish.

Henderson Crake

The species is found in dense to open forest throughout the island plateau, both in forest dominated by Pisonia and Pisonia/Xylosma, and in Timonius thicket, also occurring in Pandanus-Thespesia-Argusia embayment forests and coconut groves on the beaches (Jones et al. 1995).

Holy Magi Syro-Malabar Catholic Forane Church, Muvattupuzha

Geevarghese Kathanar of Arakuzha Pittapillil family helped them by arranging torches made of dry coconut leaves.

Jolpan

Rice flour of Xaali saul (sunned rice) and Bora saul is mixed with coconut, sugar, a little powder milk.

Khatkhate

Khatkhate Curry is prepared with at least five vegetables, plus grated coconut, jaggery, kokum, tamarind, tirphala/Tepphal (Sichuan pepper- a special spices from Konkan region), dried red chillies, garam masala powder, and turmeric powder.

Laida

Cultivated plants include tulsi, mango, guava, banana, rose, dahlia, chauldhua, kuiler, coconut, lichi, apple, Moringa oleifera and many others.

Lamington

According to the Melbourne newspaper The Age, Galland cut up some left-over French vanilla sponge cake baked the day before, dipped the slices in chocolate and set them in coconut.

Malaysian Australian

In the case of Cocos Islands, the Malays were first brought as slaves under Alexander Hare in 1826, but were then employed as coconut harvesters for copra.

Maypan coconut palm

Maypan is an F1 hybrid coconut palm that was developed by the Research Department of the Coconut Industry Board of Jamaica to be resistant to Lethal Yellowing disease.

Mignonne Fernando

During the early years Mignonne Fernando and the Jetliners enjoyed star billing at the Coconut Grove nightclub situated in the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo.

"Coconut Man" made the finals of the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo.

Mills Blue Rhythm Band

It started life as the Coconut Grove Orchestra, changing to Mills Blue Rhythm Band when Irving Mills became its manager in 1931.

Mitigation of aviation's environmental impact

A number of airlines have operated biofuel test flights including Virgin Atlantic Airways, which flew with one engine operating on a blend of 20% coconut oil and 80% traditional jet fuel, and Continental Airlines which flew with one engine operating on a blend of 44% Jatropha oil, 6% Algae oil and 50% traditional jet fuel.

Mochi

In the United States the grocery chains Trader Joe's, H Mart, Lotte, and Mollie Stone's sell mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry.

Nokia tune

Hong Kong singer Khalil Fong, a Nokia spokesperson for Greater China, composed a song called "Coconut Shell" (椰殼) which features a segment of the Nokia tune played on the erhu, a Chinese two-string instrument.

Pangode

With the spread of rubber cultivations in the 1970s and 1980s in the eastern regions of Kerala, farmers of Pangode quickly moved over from Coconut and Paddy cultivations to Rubber, attracted by its high Return on Investment.

Ranks in Gerakan Pramuka Indonesia

In Penegak group, the only shoulder loop that looks different is the CARA (Calon Bantara) or Bantara Cadet, where the logo is not the Tunas Kelapa (coconut sprout), but the kujang, an Indonesian traditional weapon, from West Java), and the word written: CARA (Calon Bantara) or Bantara Cadet.

Roy Cormier

Cormier also received notoriety after the Beastie Boys featured his name in their hit single “Body Movin’” off their 1998 Grammy award winning album Hello Nasty with the lyrics, “Puttin’ bodies in motion ‘cause I got the notion / Like Roy Cormier with the coconut lotion.”

San Pablo, Laguna

The different barangays have coconut plantation, lanzones fruit - Lansium domesticum tree plantation and rambutan fruit tree plantation - Rambutan.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

The name includes an old spelling of Coconut, Cocos nucifera, which was used in the popular Marx Brothers movie The Cocoanuts of 1929.

The Price Is Right Live!

The live stage shows are held at Caesars Entertainment casinos, as well as the Foxwoods Resort & Casino in Connecticut and the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek in Coconut Creek, Florida.

Tirtayasa

Ageng established trade with Spanish Manila for silver and built canal for coconut palm and sugar plantations, among other developments.

Vallakam

As of now, Vallakam's economy is based on what is left of coconut cultivation, newly introduced cash crops like nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) and cacao (Theobroma cacao), remittances sent by people from the village working in other Indian states and abroad and trade.

Vattal Kurishu Palli

Situated by the side of coconut palms and a wide stretch of arecanut fields, at a village called Maikavu which is about 40 km from Kozhikode, this church is the refuge of thousands of people all over the world who seek the intercession of St. George.


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