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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Candy corn is just corn turned into corn syrup then back into corn.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    A child is the most expensive thing you can get for free.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Cold coffee is the same temperature as warm beer.
  • coffeebean92
    coffeebean92 Posts: 41 Member
    Here's a yucky fact: Figs are pollinated inside out. Basically each fig plant contains a fig wasp that lives in the plants and crawls inside and dies inside the fig fruit. So a extra crunch in your fig could be partially digested wasp exoskeleton ]:
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    @MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    ariluna92 wrote: »
    Here's a yucky fact: Figs are pollinated inside out. Basically each fig plant contains a fig wasp that lives in the plants and crawls inside and dies inside the fig fruit. So a extra crunch in your fig could be partially digested wasp exoskeleton ]:

    To add to this fun fact, fig trees also come in male and female.

    So when Adam and Eve made clothing from the leaves of a fig tree....
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    Gilligan's Island Facts:

    The Skipper's name was Jonas Grumby
    The Professor's name was Roy Hinkley
    Gilligan's last name is never mentioned.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Gilligan's Island Facts:

    The Skipper's name was Jonas Grumby
    The Professor's name was Roy Hinkley
    Gilligan's last name is never mentioned.
    Gilligan was his last name, first name was "Willie". Saw it in a documentary.
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    I just ordered new glasses and I can't wait to get them.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    coolraul07 wrote: »
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Gilligan's Island Facts:

    The Skipper's name was Jonas Grumby
    The Professor's name was Roy Hinkley
    Gilligan's last name is never mentioned.
    Gilligan was his last name, first name was "Willie". Saw it in a documentary.

    Yes, you're right. I do recall that but it was never mentioned in the show. The only time their names were mentioned on the show was the first episode where they are listening to the news coverage on the radio. They names were listed but Gilligan was only referred to as "First Mate Gilligan"
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    coolraul07 wrote: »
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Gilligan's Island Facts:

    The Skipper's name was Jonas Grumby
    The Professor's name was Roy Hinkley
    Gilligan's last name is never mentioned.
    Gilligan was his last name, first name was "Willie". Saw it in a documentary.

    Yes, you're right. I do recall that but it was never mentioned in the show. The only time their names were mentioned on the show was the first episode where they are listening to the news coverage on the radio. They names were listed but Gilligan was only referred to as "First Mate Gilligan"
    Tangent - In "Malcolm In The Middle", the family's last name is never mentioned in the show. During the series finale, Malcolm's principal was announcing him as valedictorian and the microphone squelched right as he was saying his last name. The show's creator later admitted that he deliberately didn't create a last name.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    This is an actual decades-old saying of mine: "I do not watch too much TV. I just remember too much TV."
    ...usually said after I spout off some obscure TV trivia.

    Another one is: "The only constant is change and the only rule is exception."
    I usually save that one for being at work when either something isn't documented or a manager just randomly changes something retroactively.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Besides killing germs, hand sanitizer is also great at reminding you of minor injuries to your hand that you had forgotten about.
  • Staceym2112
    Staceym2112 Posts: 892 Member
    More people will come into an Emergency Department with non-emergent illnesses and complain about the wait time or people getting seen before them; than people with non-emergent illnesses that go to an urgent care or doctors office to be seen
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Chocolate is a flavor of milk, yet milk is also a flavor of chocolate.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The numbers in today's date (11/13/17) are consecutive prime numbers
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    By December 31st 2017, there will be no more children who were born in the 20th Century.
  • TEQWAR
    TEQWAR Posts: 1,616 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Chocolate is a flavor of milk, yet milk is also a flavor of chocolate.

    Thus proving chocolate is one of the essential foodgroups.
  • pogiguy05
    pogiguy05 Posts: 1,583 Member
    edited November 2017
    when eating spicy foods always wash your hands BEFORE using the bathroom
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Today is National Pickle Day.

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