Did you know?
1. An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
2. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
3. Only food that does not spoil: honey.
4. When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an “Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage”.
5. Guinea pigs and rabbits can’t sweat.
6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
7. A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
8. Pigturducken is a pig, stuffed with a turkey, which is stuffed with a chicken, deep fried in oil, which is usually put into something similar to a horse trough over propane burners.
9. When Gerber baby foods began to sell in parts of Africa, they continued to use their usual packaging, with the cute baby on the front. They didn’t realize until later that where they were selling it, it was a common practice to help illiterate people buy things by putting pictures on the wrapper of what was inside.
10. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
Toaster @ January 15, 2008