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FACT: bell peppers, cucumbers, and green beans are all fruits

By Ryan | Published: September 19, 2009

You’ve probably bumped into that guy at a party who loves to remind you that tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable. Heck, if you’re a fan of this blog, there’s a good chance you are that guy. Well now you can bring your A-game with this less commonly known identity crises; the bell pepper [...]

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FACT: a tulip was once the world’s most expensive flower

By Ryan | Published: September 12, 2009

Tulips and Holland go together like ninjas and Japan, like bacon and Canada, like ninjas and bacon and the internet. You can’t think of one without the other. However, despite being the poster-flower for their tourism efforts,  tulips are not a native plant to the Netherlands. Rather, tulips arrived in Holland with a splash, causing [...]

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FACT: the world’s largest flower smells like rotting meat

By Ryan | Published: August 9, 2009

The Rafflesia arnoldii, found in the rainforests of Indonesia, is the world largest blooming flower. A single flower can open to be as big as three feet across, and weighing 12 pounds. That’s all the good that can be said about it. The flower is actually a parasite, meaning it lives by attaching itself to [...]

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FACT: The bananas we eat are all clones

By Ryan | Published: July 22, 2009

So I was thinking about bananas one day, wondering why you don’t find seeds in them. Turns out, there hasn’t been any seeds in bananas for about 10,000 years. Plantains (“cooking bananas”) and wild varieties have pea-sized seeds in the middle of the not-so-tasty fruit, but in the awesomely delicious yellowness of the domesticated bananas [...]

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