French author Honoré de Balzac reportedly drank up to 50 coffees a day in order to help him concentrate on creating his masterpiece, La Comedie Humaine.
The Mpemba effect is a pretty counterintuitive phenomenon by which, under certain conditions, very hot liquids are able to freeze much faster than cold liquids do.
The phrase ‘moving at a snail’s pace’ was can be found in Shakespeare’s ‘Richard III’, whilst ‘busy as a bee’ goes all the way back to Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ in 1386.
