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I even missed my usual day class training today.
My body & brain seem to be working in slow motion.
So, I thought I might share something I received from Stan.
Seems there were a lot of surprises to me, maybe to you too?
ASSORTED FACTS & HINTS
1. A Strawberry isn't a Berry but a Banana is.2. Avocados and Watermelon are Berries, too.3. Cashews grow on Trees like this:
4. And Brussel
Sprouts grow in long stalks like this:
5. Chocolate
Milk was invented in Ireland
.
6. Ketchup
used to be sold as Medicine.
7. Carrots
were originally purple.
8. McDonald's
sells 75 Hamburgers every second of everyday.
9. Yams and
sweet Potatoes are not the same thing.
10. Ripe
Cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.
11. An ear of Corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.
12. Betty
White is actually older than sliced Bread.
13. Humans
share 50% of their DNA with Bananas.
14. Honey
never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old Honey.
15. Peanuts
are not Nuts. They grow in the ground like this, so they are legumes.
16. Vending
machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.
17. Coconuts
kill more people than Sharks every year. So do Cows.
18. Pound cake
got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of
Butter, Eggs, Sugar, and Flour.
19. The
probability of you drinking a glass of Water that contains a molecule of
Water that also passed through a Dinosaur is almost 100%.
20. Honey is
made from nectar and Bee vomit.
21. Pineapples
grow like this:
22. Quinoa is
the seeds of this plant:
23. Kiwis grow
on Vines:
24. Ginger is
the root of a Plant:
25. And
Cinnamon is just the inner part of this Tree:
26. And
Artichokes are Flowers that are eaten as buds. This is what they look like
when flowered:
27.
"Spam" is short for spiced Ham.
28. Popsicles
were invented by an 11-year-old in 1905.
29. Apples,
like Pears and Plums, belong to the rose family.
30. The
official state Vegetable of Oklahoma is the Watermelon.
31. Peas are
one the most popular Pizza toppings in Brazil :
32. There are
over 7,500 varieties of Apples throughout the World, and it would take you
20 Years to try them all if you had one each day.
33. The twists
in Pretzels are made to look like arms crossed in prayer.
34. Canola oil
was originally called rapeseed oil, but renamed by the Canadian oil
industry in 1978 to avoid negative connotations. "Canola" is
short for "Canadian oil."
35. And no
matter what colour Fruit Loop you eat, they all taste the same.
You may not
know
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