with regards to the simpsons "Lisa The Vegetarian" episode, if you play the "Maybe I'm Amazed" version backwards at the closing credits, Paul Mcartney says a recipie for some sort of lentil soup and then claim's "oh and by the way I'm alive".
Many of the NFL's players served in World War II. Unable to field a complete team, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles temporarily joined forces to play the 1943 season as the Phil-Pitt Steagles.
Many of the NFL's players served in World War II. Unable to field a complete team, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles temporarily joined forces to play the 1943 season as the Phil-Pitt Steagles.
Phill and Chan--y'all got jerseys?
I NEED one of those jerseys!!!!!!!!!!!!! The foll Phill prolly got the home AND away jerseys! LOL.
You can become immune to scorpion venom. Catch a centipede, and discard its head. Mash the rest, and then scratch your arm and wipe a bit of the juice on the scratch.
I don't think you can really answer this question. Vegetable has no true definition.
However, did you know a strawberry is not in fact a berry at all. Neither is a blackberry or a raspberry. They're aggregate fruits. But a banana is a berry. So is an orange. So is a pumpkin.
ANGLERFISH The male deep-sea anglerfish is much smaller than the female. But he has giant eyes to look for a suitable female and enormous nostrils to sniff out her pheromones.
Having found her, he latches onto her with his teeth and then starts to disappear. Scales, bones, blood vessels all merge into those of the female. After a few weeks, all that's left of the male are the testes hanging off the female's side, supplying her with his genes.
BEE Bees can recognise human faces. Given that many humans struggle with this once they have turned 40, it seems utterly remarkable in a creature whose brain is the size of a pinhead. Yet bees who are rewarded with nectar when shown some photos of faces, and not rewarded when shown others, quickly learn to tell the difference. Not that we should read too much into this. Bees don't "think" in a meaningful way. The "faces" in the experiment were clearly functioning as rather odd-looking flowers, not as people they wanted to get to know socially.
CHEETAH The modern cheetah population can be traced back to a single African group of 500 animals that survived the last ice age. Genetically, this means all living cheetahs are as close as identical twins. They are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity because the female needs to be chased by several males before she can ovulate. Akbar the Great, the 16th-century Mogul emperor, kept more than 1,000 cheetahs but managed only one litter. The next cheetah born in captivity wasn't until 1956.
MONKEY An experiment with rhesus macaques revealed that they would "pay" to look at pictures of the faces and bottoms of high-ranking females, by forfeiting their usual reward of a glass of cherry juice. With low-ranking females, however, the researchers had to bribe them with an even larger glass of juice before they would pay any attention.
PIGEON To keep alive in the wild, a pigeon needs to keep its eyes open for predators. Having eyes on the side of its head gives it a field of view of 340 degrees and, in order to fly at speed, its brain can process visual information three times faster than a human's. If a pigeon watched a feature film, 24 frames per second would appear to it like a slide presentation. They would need at least 75 frames per second to create the illusion of movement on screen. (This is why pigeons seem to leave it until the very last second to fly out of the way of an oncoming car: it appears much less fast to them.)
I don't think you can really answer this question. Vegetable has no true definition.
However, did you know a strawberry is not in fact a berry at all. Neither is a blackberry or a raspberry. They're aggregate fruits. But a banana is a berry. So is an orange. So is a pumpkin.
i love those facts. i'm a botanist, so i really care!
a walnut is noz a nut, but a lychee is. GO FIGURE!
I don't think you can really answer this question. Vegetable has no true definition.
However, did you know a strawberry is not in fact a berry at all. Neither is a blackberry or a raspberry. They're aggregate fruits. But a banana is a berry. So is an orange. So is a pumpkin.
i love those facts. i'm a botanist, so i really care!
Comments
I'm gonna need jpeg proof of that one.....
with regards to the simpsons "Lisa The Vegetarian" episode, if you play the "Maybe I'm Amazed" version backwards at the closing credits, Paul Mcartney says a recipie for some sort of lentil soup and then claim's "oh and by the way I'm alive".
here's a short snippet of it
Phill and Chan--y'all got jerseys?
I NEED one of those jerseys!!!!!!!!!!!!! The foll Phill prolly got the home AND away jerseys! LOL.
Or salt.
Marcel Duchamp taught John Cage to play chess.
The sun does not set, it is rotated out of view.
Philip Glass did the first transcription of Indian classical music into Euro-American notation.
Some lava rocks float.
When going around a track, runners almost always go counterclockwise. Races, including Nascar, go counterclockwise.
Beef (killing a cow for food) is illegal in most of India.
In a handful of countries, you can get the death penalty for being homosexual.
CAMPUS MOTTO: BOTTOMS UP, MAC!
This just messed with me so much I had to grab a calculator.
This is only obscure until one passes the fifth grade.
It's a fruit, but the kind you buy tends to be seedless, like grapes and watermelon.
It's a fruit.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/pineapple.html
I was just informed, it's now just a storage area.
- spidey
i offer an Arzachel original LP to anyone who can tell the difference between fruits and vegetables!
you need my home address?
- spidey
contains egg
fruits are parts of cultivated plants too.
no, no arzachel for you!
Either that or you are in some way deformed. And that's not being deformist.
It's why some vegetables are considered fruits.
You should still send me the record.
- spidey
I don't think you can really answer this question. Vegetable has no true definition.
However, did you know a strawberry is not in fact a berry at all. Neither is a blackberry or a raspberry. They're aggregate fruits. But a banana is a berry. So is an orange. So is a pumpkin.
Here are some animal facts for you.
ANGLERFISH
The male deep-sea anglerfish is much smaller than the female. But he has giant eyes to look for a suitable female and enormous nostrils to sniff out her pheromones.
Having found her, he latches onto her with his teeth and then starts to disappear. Scales, bones, blood vessels all merge into those of the female. After a few weeks, all that's left of the male are the testes hanging off the female's side, supplying her with his genes.
BEE
Bees can recognise human faces. Given that many humans struggle with this once they have turned 40, it seems utterly remarkable in a creature whose brain is the size of a pinhead. Yet bees who are rewarded with nectar when shown some photos of faces, and not rewarded when shown others, quickly learn to tell the difference. Not that we should read too much into this. Bees don't "think" in a meaningful way. The "faces" in the experiment were clearly functioning as rather odd-looking flowers, not as people they wanted to get to know socially.
CHEETAH
The modern cheetah population can be traced back to a single African group of 500 animals that survived the last ice age. Genetically, this means all living cheetahs are as close as identical twins. They are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity because the female needs to be chased by several males before she can ovulate. Akbar the Great, the 16th-century Mogul emperor, kept more than 1,000 cheetahs but managed only one litter. The next cheetah born in captivity wasn't until 1956.
MONKEY
An experiment with rhesus macaques revealed that they would "pay" to look at pictures of the faces and bottoms of high-ranking females, by forfeiting their usual reward of a glass of cherry juice. With low-ranking females, however, the researchers had to bribe them with an even larger glass of juice before they would pay any attention.
PIGEON
To keep alive in the wild, a pigeon needs to keep its eyes open for predators. Having eyes on the side of its head gives it a field of view of 340 degrees and, in order to fly at speed, its brain can process visual information three times faster than a human's. If a pigeon watched a feature film, 24 frames per second would appear to it like a slide presentation. They would need at least 75 frames per second to create the illusion of movement on screen. (This is why pigeons seem to leave it until the very last second to fly out of the way of an oncoming car: it appears much less fast to them.)
i love those facts. i'm a botanist, so i really care!
a walnut is noz a nut, but a lychee is. GO FIGURE!
Yeah, but the word sunset gets some pretty heavy rotation for a myth dispelled so early in life.
Wat do I win?