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You'll find answers to questions no one is asking, but still want to know.
Here's just a few: A man was arrested and charged with the robbery-of vending machines. The man posted his bail, entirely in quarters. Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income. Deer can't eat hay. Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat. Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years. Giraffes can't cough. Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length. In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink but rather a staple food. Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world. Toasters that don't eject Pop Tarts properly can cause Pop Tarts to emit flames 10-18 inches in height. Mount St. Helens elevation dropped 1,313 feet in 1980. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino. The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes death. You'll find these and hundreds more.
In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink, but rather a staple food. The only borough of New York City that isn't an island or part of an island is the Bronx.
Camel's-hair brushes are not made of camel's hair. A man named Mr. Camel invented them. Venetian blinds were invented in Japan. The Ritz cracker was introduced to markets in 1934, but gourmets had to wait until 1953 for the invention of cheese in a can. Americans eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety in the United States is the Red Delicious. The cashew is part of a fruit that grows in tropical regions called 'a cashew apple'. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. The cashew apple is not commercially important since it spoils quickly, but local people love the fruit. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated.
Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive. The queen bee lays nearly 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days—he has no sting. Worker bees - all sterile females - usually work themselves to death within 40 days, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees will fly p to 9 miles to find pollen and nectar, flying at speeds as fast as 15 mph.
The tarantula spends most of its life within its burrow, which is an 18-inch vertical hole with an inch-wide opening. When male tarantulas are between the ages of 5 to 7 years, they leave the burrow in search of a female, usually in the early fall. This migration actually signals the end of their life cycle. The males mate with as many females as they can, and then they die around mid-November.
More than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered how to make silk from silkworm cocoons. For about 3,000 years, the Chinese kept this discovery a secret. Because poor people could not afford real silk, they tried to make other cloth look silky. Women would beat on cotton with sticks to soften the fibers. Then they rubbed it against a big stone to make it shiny. The shiny cotton was called "chintz." Because chintz was a cheaper copy of silk, calling something "chintzy" means it is cheap and not of good quality.
The first wooden shoe came from the Netherlands. The Netherlands have many seas so people wanted a shoe that kept their feet dry while working outside. The shoes were called klompen and they had been cut of one single piece of wood. Today the klompen are the favorite souvenir for people who visit the Netherlands.
Values on the Monopoly game-board are the same today as they were in 1935.
Limelight was how we lit the stage before electricity was invented. Basically, illumination was produced by heating blocks of lime until they glowed.
You'll find answers to questions no one is asking, but still want to know.
Here's just a few: A man was arrested and charged with the robbery-of vending machines. The man posted his bail, entirely in quarters. Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income. Deer can't eat hay. Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat. Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years. Giraffes can't cough. Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length. In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink but rather a staple food. Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world. Toasters that don't eject Pop Tarts properly can cause Pop Tarts to emit flames 10-18 inches in height. Mount St. Helens elevation dropped 1,313 feet in 1980. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino. The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes death. You'll find these and hundreds more.
In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink, but rather a staple food. The only borough of New York City that isn't an island or part of an island is the Bronx.
Camel's-hair brushes are not made of camel's hair. A man named Mr. Camel invented them. Venetian blinds were invented in Japan. The Ritz cracker was introduced to markets in 1934, but gourmets had to wait until 1953 for the invention of cheese in a can. Americans eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety in the United States is the Red Delicious. The cashew is part of a fruit that grows in tropical regions called 'a cashew apple'. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. The cashew apple is not commercially important since it spoils quickly, but local people love the fruit. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated.
Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive. The queen bee lays nearly 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days—he has no sting. Worker bees - all sterile females - usually work themselves to death within 40 days, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees will fly p to 9 miles to find pollen and nectar, flying at speeds as fast as 15 mph.
The tarantula spends most of its life within its burrow, which is an 18-inch vertical hole with an inch-wide opening. When male tarantulas are between the ages of 5 to 7 years, they leave the burrow in search of a female, usually in the early fall. This migration actually signals the end of their life cycle. The males mate with as many females as they can, and then they die around mid-November.
More than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered how to make silk from silkworm cocoons. For about 3,000 years, the Chinese kept this discovery a secret. Because poor people could not afford real silk, they tried to make other cloth look silky. Women would beat on cotton with sticks to soften the fibers. Then they rubbed it against a big stone to make it shiny. The shiny cotton was called "chintz." Because chintz was a cheaper copy of silk, calling something "chintzy" means it is cheap and not of good quality.
The first wooden shoe came from the Netherlands. The Netherlands have many seas so people wanted a shoe that kept their feet dry while working outside. The shoes were called klompen and they had been cut of one single piece of wood. Today the klompen are the favorite souvenir for people who visit the Netherlands.
Values on the Monopoly game-board are the same today as they were in 1935.
Limelight was how we lit the stage before electricity was invented. Basically, illumination was produced by heating blocks of lime until they glowed.
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