a cool thing I learned today » Food Facts https://acoolthingilearnedtoday.com so i can remember what fun facts i learned about things... Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:41:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 Bananas Are Berries https://acoolthingilearnedtoday.com/bananas-are-berries/ https://acoolthingilearnedtoday.com/bananas-are-berries/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:48:47 +0000 https://acoolthingilearnedtoday.com/?p=180

Most people think Bananas are fruit BUT – Botanically speaking, Bananas are definitely Berries, which also means that there is no such thing as a Banana tree! it is a Herb – and it grows up to 8 meters with giant banana leaves.

Source>>  Wikipedia – Banana

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Bananas Are Berries Bananas Are Berries

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The great state of Arkansas (in the U.S) has adopted the South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato as Arkansas’ official state fruit and… WAIT FOR IT…. also as Arkansas’ official state  vegetable,  it all went down on March 16, 1987 and was mentioned in Arkansas’ law:

“It is found and determined by the General Assembly that the South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato has a taste, texture, appearance, and aroma second to none and that the tomato is botanically a fruit and used as a vegetable. It is further determined by the General Assembly that Arkansas does not have a state fruit or a state vegetable. Therefore, the South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato shall be the official state fruit and the official state vegetable.”

*Botanically the tomato is definitely a fruit , but many see it as a vegetable none the less.

Source>>  Wikipedia (List of Arkansas state symbols)

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Why does chocolate melt in your mouth? Well, mainly due to Cocoa butter which is a major ingredient in all kinds of Chocolate, (including white chocolate), the Cocoa butter melts near body temperature (37 °C) and thus makes sure that when we insert chocolate into our mouth, it’ll reach it’s melting point and convert back to yummy liquid.

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Source>> Wikipedia – Chocolate

 

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Kaka/Caca means “poop” in Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Albanian… but In Swedish and other Nordic languages it means “cookie” or “small cake”…
Does that means that cookies in Scandinavia tastes like shit ?  we hope not …

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Source>> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaka and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caca

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]]> https://acoolthingilearnedtoday.com/kaka-means-poop/feed/ 9 The word “Salad” comes from the Latin “salata” which simply means – salty https://acoolthingilearnedtoday.com/the-word-salad-comes-from-the-latin-salata-which-simply-means-salty/ https://acoolthingilearnedtoday.com/the-word-salad-comes-from-the-latin-salata-which-simply-means-salty/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:48:50 +0000 https://acoolthingilearnedtoday.com/?p=76

The word “Salad” comes from the Latin “salata” which simply means – salty.

 

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Source>> Wikipedia – Salad

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a Cool thing I learned today – Surprisingly enough, the first product to have ever had a barcode printed on it, was a packet of Gum, more specifically Wrigley’s  Gum somewhere around 1974.

Source: Wikipedia – Barcode system 

 

first product to have a barcode

first product to have a barcode

 

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