Do you know any cool useless facts?

I recently got schooled by my son in 2nd grade.

He says to me "dad, did you know you can't grow an apple tree from a seed out of that apple you just ate and get the same apple?" I said sure you can. How do you think they grow apple trees. If you can't plant apple seeds how would we have these apples? He said "no, you can't. It won't grow the same kind of tree". So I looked it up and sure enough you can't. If you plant an apple seed from lets say, a Red Delicious, it will grow into one of 2 or 3 "wild" apples that are nothing like the one you ate. All the good store bought apples you eat are all grown from root stock from another tree....not from the seed.

He also schooled me on the fact that potatoes are not roots. I said sure the are. Well, guess what, they are not roots. They are stems. I had to look that one up also. The eyes are the roots. Who knew?

I guess public schools can teach kids.

And tomatos are not vegetables. they are fruits. Fun stuff Eh?
Aaron

And so are zucchinis, eggplants, capsicums, chillis, cucumbers, squash and chokoes for your useless information!

isn't capsicum, the peppers? or the spicy in peppers?

They are what you Amurricans would call peppers, yes.

Ok ... Useless facts .... While the fruit of the banana is a 'fruit' .... In the grand scheme of Botanical reference ... The plant is a herb!

And bamboo is a grass.

Eating a whole nutmeg can give you a bad time!!

You can graft oranges to grow on an apple tree!

Worker bees are sterile females and can lay eggs also ... But the eggs will only ever become drones (males) .... The drones purpose is to mate with the queen ... The rest of the spring time they only eat and walk around the hive occasionally flapping their wings to 'help' ventilate.... It's a good life ...

Till the end of summer or when the pollen/nectar flow in the area dries up.... Then the workers drag the drones out of the hive, bite their legs and wings off and leave them to die outside ... 

You can't eat a spoon full of cinnamon powder.

Bumblebees only live in nests of 12-20 ish members. Because of this, they are extremely reluctant to sting. They also nest in different locations each year. The only surviving member of each nest is the new queen, which hibernates through the winter months and lays its eggs in the early spring.

Or something like that.

Male bedbugs have a hard, corkscrew, shaped genitalia. When they go to mate, they literally have to screw into the female bedbug.

Good luck sleeping tonight!

Quote from: Janx101 on December 09, 2013, 01:34:26 AM
Ok ... Useless facts .... While the fruit of the banana is a 'fruit' .... In the grand scheme of Botanical reference ... The plant is a herb!

so is marijuana

Quote from: Big Rich on December 09, 2013, 05:54:42 PM
Male bedbugs have a hard, corkscrew, shaped genitalia. When they go to mate, they literally have to screw into the female bedbug.

Good luck sleeping tonight!

Same thing with pigs.

Quote from: Janx101 on December 09, 2013, 01:34:26 AM
Ok ... Useless facts .... While the fruit of the banana is a 'fruit' .... In the grand scheme of Botanical reference ... The plant is a herb!

When you cook the banana as a flower which we do in India and its freaking delicious, the part of it you cant eat is what becomes the banana if it were to grow fully.
A banana tree will only produce 1 flower and if its cut as a flower its done ... it will just rot and die.

So we Injuns eat the whole bloody thing. The stem is chopped and cooked.
The leaves are what you eat on. Its the "plate".
The flower too gets cooked and eaten.

Cool.
Buddha.

Quote from: The Buddha on December 09, 2013, 09:07:18 PM

Quote from: Janx101 on December 09, 2013, 01:34:26 AM
Ok ... Useless facts .... While the fruit of the banana is a 'fruit' .... In the grand scheme of Botanical reference ... The plant is a herb!

When you cook the banana as a flower which we do in India and its freaking delicious, the part of it you cant eat is what becomes the banana if it were to grow fully.
A banana tree will only produce 1 flower and if its cut as a flower its done ... it will just rot and die.

So we Injuns eat the whole bloody thing. The stem is chopped and cooked.
The leaves are what you eat on. Its the "plate".
The flower too gets cooked and eaten.

Cool.
Buddha.

Quote from: Janx101 on December 09, 2013, 01:44:55 AM
Eating a whole nutmeg can give you a bad time!!

Did you know that Mace (the spice) comes from the same plant as Nutmeg? It is the red "lacing" around the nutmeg itself. Very strange.

Did you know that raisins and consequently grapes, though to a lesser degree by volume, can be fatal to dogs?

Back to bananas, I actually researched bananas a while back because of something I read in book.

Bananas are the largest herb on earth. There is no trunk on a banana tree, just folded leaves. They exist in most every country on earth. They can only be grown from a banana rhizome (root sucker).....they don't have seeds. So, how do they grow everywhere, even on remote islands, without seeds (look it up, it will make you think)? They have all the ingredients we need to live. They are the perfect food and they grow over the entire planet.

Look up why bananas should not exits.

Quote from: pliskin on December 10, 2013, 08:48:48 PM
Back to bananas, I actually researched bananas a while back because of something I read in book.

Bananas are the largest herb on earth. There is no trunk on a banana tree, just folded leaves. They exist in most every country on earth. They can only be grown from a banana rhizome (root sucker).....they don't have seeds. So, how do they grow everywhere, even on remote islands, without seeds (look it up, it will make you think)? They have all the ingredients we need to live. They are the perfect food and they grow over the entire planet.

Look up why bananas should not exits.

Bananas do tend to exit when you eat them...sooner or later.