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KITCHEN TIPS From Africa

1. Never store Onions and Potatoes together because both produce a gas that causes either of them to spoil quickly.

2. Put two or three orange leaves in your hot palm oil on the fire. Let the leaves turn black before removing it. By then your palm oil becomes pure groundnut oil also giving your food a nice taste.

3. To avoid feeling a peppering hotness on your hands after cutting pepper with bare hand scrub your hand with salt and red oil then wash it.

4. If you happen to over salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess salt.

5. If your Soup or Stew goes sour while warming it, add little piece of Charcoal and remove after warming, the taste will come back.

6. Never put citrus fruits (oranges, lemon, lime, etc) or tomatoes in the fridge. The low temperature degrades the aroma and flavor of these fruits.

7. When storing empty airtight containers, throw in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting stinky.

8. If your salt is becoming lumpy, put a few grains of rice in with it to absorb excess moisture.

9. To reuse cooking oil without tasting whatever was cooked in the oil previously, cook a 1/4" piece of ginger in the oil. It will remove any remaining flavors and odors.
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Some AFRICAN Countries and Their Slogans!

• Nigeria- The Giant of Africa 🇳🇬

• Kenya - The Pride of Africa 🇰🇪

• South Africa – Rainbow Nation 🇿🇦

• Rwanda – Land of a Thousand Hills🇷🇼

• Madagascar – The Red Island 🇲🇬

• Lesotho – The Kingdom In the Sky 🇱🇸

• Egypt – The Gift of the Nile 🇪🇬

• Burkina Faso – Land of the Upright Men🇧🇫

• Ghana- The gateway to Africa/Stars of africa🇬🇭

• Namibia- Land of the Brave 🇳🇦

• Uganda- The Pearl of Africa 🇺🇬

• Malawi- The Warm heart of Africa 🇲🇼

• Zambia- The real Africa 🇿🇲

• Tanzania - Brain of Africa (Bongo) 🇹🇿

• Gambia- the smiling coast of Africa 🇬🇲

• Ethiopia- the land of origin 🇪🇹

• Burkina faso - the land of upright men 🇧🇫

• Morroco -the land of colours 🇲🇦

• Mauritius- the continental island 🇲🇺

• Comoros- the perfum island 🇰🇲

• Sierra leone - salon 🇸🇱

• Chad- the dead heart of Africa 🇹🇩

• Mali- the eyes of africa 🇲🇱

• Djibouti - the pearl of the gulf of tadjiboura 🇩🇯

• Cabo verde - llha do 🇨🇻

• Sao tome and Principe- the chocolate island

• Cameroun- the hinge of Africa 🇨🇲

• Seychelles - the land of perpetual summer 🇸🇨

• Gabon - Le bled 🇬🇦

• Somali - the horn of Africa 🇸🇴

• Botswana - Peaceful nation 🇧🇼

• Ghana - Black Stars of Africa 🇬🇭

Add yours if your country isn't on the list.

Spiders: One of Earth's Greatest Structural Engineers

1. Spiders' webs are made of protein

2. Spiders' webs are stronger than steel

3. There are over 45,000 species of spiders. You can tell the species of a spider by looking at the type of web it creates

4. Some spiders eat their webs to generate more protein to create more webs.

5. Spiders' webs are traps and alert systems. They make their webs in such a way that if a prey or predator gets into the web, the spider will know immediately.

6. Ogre-faced Spiders or net casting spiders throw net like a fisherman to catch their prey.

7. There is an ongoing research to use spider fibers in producing bulletproofs, because the fibers are stronger than kevlars.

8. Each fiber in the spider web is not only different, each also has a different name.

9. One spider can make at least 4 different types of webs.

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