An interesting (but useless) fact......
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lazyitus said:
A banana is not a fruit. It's a herb.
Mmm....close.Edited by lazyitus on Thursday 30th July 22:25
The banana tree is not a tree, it's a herb. The world's largest herb. It's a herb because it has a fleshy trunk and it dies back after flowering.
The banana itself is the fruit of this herb, but as it has soft internal seeds it is classified as a berry.
So a banana is a berry which is the fruit of a herb.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Mmm....close.
The banana tree is not a tree, it's a herb. The world's largest herb. It's a herb because it has a fleshy trunk and it dies back after flowering.
The banana itself is the fruit of this herb, but as it has soft internal seeds it is classified as a berry.
So a banana is a berry which is the fruit of a herb.
An interesting fact (well I think so) is I have growing in my garden:The banana tree is not a tree, it's a herb. The world's largest herb. It's a herb because it has a fleshy trunk and it dies back after flowering.
The banana itself is the fruit of this herb, but as it has soft internal seeds it is classified as a berry.
So a banana is a berry which is the fruit of a herb.
Musa Basjoo
Musa Sikkimensis
musa lasiocarpa
Ensete ventricosum
Ensete maurelii
I love me bananas
Flippin' Kipper said:
If the earth was shrunk to the size of a snooker ball it would be smoother than a snooker ball.
The earth is not perfectly spherical due to the centrifugal force of it rotating on its axis.
wasn't there something on here ages ago saying there is no such thing as centrifugal force?The earth is not perfectly spherical due to the centrifugal force of it rotating on its axis.
and that it was centripetal force or something?
/pedantoff
Is the one about the space shuttle requiring less RAM than Windows 95 really true? no wonder it crashes everynow and then...
;-)
Edited by Nom de ploom on Friday 15th June 16:23
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
In one afternoon's Casino Royale film shooting, three Aston Martin DBS cars valued at $300,000 each were destroyed for the car roll sequence.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
In one afternoon's Casino Royale film shooting, three Aston Martin DBS cars valued at $300,000 each were destroyed for the car roll sequence.
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In the British Empire in the 19th century, hard labour became a standard feature of penal servitude.
Forms of labour for punishment included the treadmill, shot drill, and the crank machine.
The crank machine was a machine with a handle that forced four large cups or ladles through sand inside a drum, doing nothing useful. Male prisoners had to turn the handle 14,400 times a day, as registered on a dial. The warder could make the task harder by tightening a screw, hence the slang term "screw" for prison warder.
Forms of labour for punishment included the treadmill, shot drill, and the crank machine.
The crank machine was a machine with a handle that forced four large cups or ladles through sand inside a drum, doing nothing useful. Male prisoners had to turn the handle 14,400 times a day, as registered on a dial. The warder could make the task harder by tightening a screw, hence the slang term "screw" for prison warder.
tommy vercetti said:
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
Average English word 5.1 letters long - average size/length of letter (generous) 1.5cm - average word length = 7.65cm, x 50k = 382500cm = 3.8Km = 2.4miles"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
The average bic biro will write approximately 1000 words before it disappears.
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