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Random stupid facts!

FloofyNewfie said:
Well... Since we're on the topic of rape for some reason, if you're in the United States you can often find flowers without leaves. It's pretty much just a stem and a flower.

This flower plant is actually a parasitic plant. Their seeds will lie dormant in the ground for years until an unlucky tree grows its roots near the seeds. The seeds will then sprout and immediately leach nutrients from the tree. Who needs leaves if you can just steal your nutrients from others.

What is this plant called?

Drumroll please...

"Broomrape."

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Unrelated....broomrape is an entirely other family. Rapa is latin for turnip....and true Rapes are edible....this stuff isnt
 
FloofyNewfie said:
Well... Since we're on the topic of rape for some reason, if you're in the United States you can often find flowers without leaves. It's pretty much just a stem and a flower.

This flower plant is actually a parasitic plant. Their seeds will lie dormant in the ground for years until an unlucky tree grows its roots near the seeds. The seeds will then sprout and immediately leach nutrients from the tree. Who needs leaves if you can just steal your nutrients from others.

What is this plant called?

Drumroll please...

"Broomrape."

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Good lord ... I wish I knew more odd facts like that but I'm often very forgetful.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Actually, the word Henge is a vert very old word for " Hang".....The Henge in Salisbury is known in Gaelic languages as "The Hanging Stones"
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Actually, that doesn't matter because henge didn't have an English definition until we used the "henge" from stone henge to describe a man made land formation.... The land formation around stone henge isn't a henge even though the word came from stone henge
 
Also, monopoly is technically an oxymoron... "Mono" means one and "poly" means multiple.... I understand why the word is named this way so please don't explain it to me
 
There's no such thing as fish, genetically most fish aren't even related and happen to be more closely related to land animals then most other creatures in the ocean and just happen to look the same... like how most things on land have legs, noses and skin because it's a sensible path of evolution, most things in the ocean have fins and gills because it's a sensible path and our monkey brains just see them all as being the same
 
Valkiria said:
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

One single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.

Queen Elizabeth II was a trained and qualified mechanic.
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Liz also qualified as a motor despatch rider....she had BIIIIGGGG BSAs !
 
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Valkiria said:
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

One single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.

Queen Elizabeth II was a trained and qualified mechanic.
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The fun part about queen Elizabeth being a mechanic was that she wasn't supposed to join the war, she ran away from home
 
The ladies of Great Britain felt their duty was plain...and their efforts, from Princess Elizabeth down were instrumental in succeeding in that War....My mother was one of them....Bless 'em All!
 
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