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.
36. Spacing is not an option.
Have you heard about the cannibal who passed a missionary in the jungle?
No, but I did hear that one cannibal told another that he was having a ball.
LOL!
cashews are considered fruit not nuts.
Mellow yellow from Donovan was part of that...quite rightly
Sister handled Coca-Cola litigation for years. Yes, it’s true. They were sued by scum stealing the/from the machine, when the machine fell on them.
Pineapples grow easily in the south. We take the cut off tops, put them in a glass jar, and when roots dart growing, plant them.
Got a few a my yard already.
Note, don’t cut the pineapple off with a knife. Spin the fruit off the plant.
If you spin it will blossom yearly, cut off every 2 years.
Know why cannibals don’t eat clowns?
They taste funny
Oops, should have posted #30 to All
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