Posted on 08/06/2018 10:19:47 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Did you know? Maybe not…
1. A strawberry isn’t a berry but a banana is. 2. Avocados and watermelon are berries, too. 3. Cashews grow on trees. 4. And Brussels sprouts grow in long stalks. 5. Chocolate milk was invented in Ireland. 6. Ketchup used to be sold as medicine 7. Carrots were originally purple. 8. McDonalds sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day. 9. Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing. 10. Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls. 11. An average 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, 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 in the ground. 22. Quinoa is the seeds of a plant. 23. Kiwis grow on vines. 24. Ginger is the root of a plant. 25. Cinnamon is just the inner part of a tree. 26. And artichokes are flowers that are eaten as buds. 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 color Froot Loop you eat, they all taste the same.
A banana is not a berry, it is an herb.
It’s a banana!!!!
“And no matter what color Froot Loop you eat, they all taste the same.”
Eat a lot of them do You? ,<)
Fascinating!
But #16? How does a vending machine kill anybody?
By falling on those who try to steal from it?
That’s just how vending machines protect themselves!
Poetic justice.
The only thing I might ask for your next list, which I will want to read, it that you space the copy into paragraphs.
I have ‘funny eyes’.
And diarrhea is not hereditary unless you find it running in your genes.
And the air is always different to a midget in a crowded elevator.
Cashews grow on trees......They are the seed of the cashew apple and grow on the outside of the apple.
Found this - but there are differing opinions all over the net.
http://www.answers.com/Q/Is_a_Banana_a_herb_or_berry
A banana tree is not actually classified as a tree due to the fact that it has no wood fibers. So it is actually a plant, IE: Herb. A berry is an indehiscent fruit with two or more seeds and a fleshy pericarp, which is exactly what a banana is. This is not a debate it is fact that bananas are berries. But of course most will argue just as most debated that avocados are veggies and not a fruit which we all know now they are actually a type of fruit
for paragraphs/lists - sorry for being sloppy:)
Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.
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A few months ago, I was given a free vandalized soda machine. My son in law said he’d take it and sell it at the salvage yard.
Dang thing weighed 690 pounds. It took 3 grown men to load it on a pickup truck.
So yeah. Any Darwin candidate that might rock or shake a vending machine - will find out how deadly they are.
I take issue with the pineapple. They grow on top of an aloe-like bush. Said bush does grow in the ground, so I know nothing.
What is the difference between yams and sweet potatoes?
No. It's an orange.
Come on Kryten you can do it.
What is the difference between yams and sweet potatoes?
About $0.07 a pound.
All I remember about bananas is that back in the 60s when it was rumored that smoking dried banana skins would get you high, you could not find one anywhere within 25 miles of Berkeley.
I believe 21 is wrong ‘Pineapples grow in the ground”.
Pineapples grow above ground on a stalk from a bromeliad plant.
And, No. 3—cashews—are in the same root family as poison oak and poison ivy and sumac. Urishuol is the culprit and common to pistachios and mangoes, as well.
“31. Peas are one the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil. “
That actually sounds GOOD!!! (-:
Time was when apple cider was the national drink, as much of the water was unfit for said use.
690 pounds, and that’s empty weight!
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