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Re: Did you know.........
Liz, you got all but 1. There are 40 species! 
Good job once again!!  
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| September 25, 2006, 09:22 |
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QUOTE (MoonHowler @ September 16, 2006, 13:41)I'm not sure if there's a topic for this already. If so, I can't find it! So here goes.....
Did you know
Frog bones grow new rings as they age, just like trees.
Dalmatians are born without spots.
ahhh...Mooninformation...a veritable plethora of knowledge...beauty and brains...
Spiders have clear blood.
Giraffes were once called "Camelopards" because people thought they were half camel and half leopard.
The Statue of Liberty's fingernails are each slightly bigger than a regular sized magazine.
The world's oceans contain enough GOLD to give two pounds to every person on the planet.
The ancient Egyptians trained monkeys to dance and play music.
Some ants can make themselves explode.
There is no sound in space.
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Ethanol is what makes apples ripen and go bad? If you put an apple in a paper sack with a bunch of bananas, they'll ripen quicker. Putting apples in the fridge (I like mine cold!) will extend their life. If one goes bad, the ethanol lever skyrockets and will rot the other ones real fast! One bad apple will spoil the whole bunch!
Many years ago, people would pick apples in the fall, put them in barrels and submerge them in lakes and rivers through the winter. When they retrieved them in the spring, they were as ripe as when they picked them!
Pretty interesting stuff!
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Re: Re: Did you know.........
QUOTE (MoonHowler @ October 4, 2006, 10:22)Ethanol is what makes apples ripen and go bad? If you put an apple in a paper sack with a bunch of bananas, they'll ripen quicker. Putting apples in the fridge (I like mine cold!) will extend their life. If one goes bad, the ethanol lever skyrockets and will rot the other ones real fast! One bad apple will spoil the whole bunch!
Many years ago, people would pick apples in the fall, put them in barrels and submerge them in lakes and rivers through the winter. When they retrieved them in the spring, they were as ripe as when they picked them!
Pretty interesting stuff!
My folks, (ancestors) use to bury the apples in the ground, then in the middle of winter, during the holidays usually, the kids would get all excited about being sent out to dig up the apples, knowing this meant that there would be some apples pies being baked...on the ole' ancestral farm, the original root cellar is still in use...
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