:D bananas grow on trees upside down
fruits
:D bananas grow on trees upside down
Women blink nearly twice as much as men .
We can only hear 20% of an elephants "squeal". The other 80% is at frequencies that cannot be heard by humans.
Cheetahs are the only cats with claws that do NOT retract.
When a dog wants to play, he stretches out his front paws on the ground and sticks his butt in the air. When Pete is trying to tell his wife he wants to play....um...never mind.
Harrumph
Well, I've never seen them grow other than singly, but further investigation (including photographic evidence) suggests that grapefruit may indeed grow in clusters as well as singly.
I learned something else I didn't know, which is that grapefruit is a hybrid of the pummelo and the orange; and that a tangelo is a hybrid of the grapefruit and the tangerine.
I wonder if pummeloes grow in clusters...
Well then they'd be called grapepummels, wouldn't they? ;)shanbaum said:
I wonder if pummeloes grow in clusters...
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Both were illegal at the time.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
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the world's nuclear weapons combined.
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On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens
everyyear.
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