Joaquin Phoenix lived on "lettuce, asparagus and apples" to slim down for 'Joker'. The Oscar-winning actor previously revealed he'd lost over 50lbs (22.6kg) for his lead role in the movie and has admitted he undertook a "horrible diet" involving just one very limited meal a day. perthnow.com.au/entertain…
There is no such thing as a vegetable in biology. What we call vegetables are really just parts of plants. Asparagus is the stalk of a plant. Broccoli is the flower of a plant, etc. popula.com/2019/02/20/veg…
Researchers sent out surveys to 23AndMe users asking if they noticed a smell when peeing after eating asparagus. Using the 53% that said "Yes", they were able to isolate the specific part of the DNA that determines whether you can smell asparagus pee. mindthesciencegap.org/201…
Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him so he had 15 girls taste the food before he ate it himself. ""The food was delicious, only the best vegetables, asparagus, bell peppers, everything you can imagine", food taster Margot Woelk recalled cbc.ca/news/world/hitler-…
Today I learned that Penn & Teller first performed together 45 years ago at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, sometimes with a third performer, billed as "The Asparagus Valley Cultural Society." power96radio.com/penn-tel…
In 2015, Whole Foods tried to sell Asparagus Water for $6 (literally three stalks of asparagus in a bottle of water). Twitter users made fun of the company for selling such a ridiculously pricey item. The company's CEO then issued an apology and pulled off the product from the shelves. usatoday.com/story/money/…
Creme Puff the oldest cat ever recorded with 38 years and 3 days (1967-2005) had an usual diet of, among other things, bacon and eggs, asparagus, broccoli, and coffee with heavy cream en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cre…
Asparagus leaves a distinctly unpleasant and sulfuric odor in your urine. Researchers claim that about 40% of people can distinguish the smell to varying degrees. npr.org/sections/thesalt/…
Today I learned that eating asparagus creates a distinctively smelling pee every time, but not everyone can detect this odor. huffpost.com/entry/aspara…
After digesting asparagus, we produce volatile compounds that make our pee smell, but genetically, only some people can detect them chemistryhall.com/asparag…
Every spring, Germans go crazy for white asparagus. The Spargelzeit (Time of the asparagus) is celebrated with numerous asparagus festivals throughout the country and practically every restaurant features the vegetable prominently on a special menu. germanfoods.org/german-fo…
The way white asparagus is grown is that it's covered in a thick layer of mulch and dark plastic so that no sunlight reaches the spears.This way the vegetable never gets a chance to turn green because no photosynthesis takes place. modernfarmer.com/2014/07/…
One man had the world's oldest living cat, 38 years old, and another that lived to be 34. It has been suggested that their longevity may be attributable to an unusual diet of bacon and eggs, asparagus, and broccoli en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cre…
In an Iron Chef episode centered around the ingredient "asparagus", a challenger claimed to have used over $1,000 worth of lobster to "simply flavor his asparagus". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iro…
White Asparagus and Green Asparagus are actually the same vegetable. White Asparagus is grown under a cover or soil, so that photosynthesis never happens to it. cooksillustrated.com/how_…
Asparagus was once included in the emergency ration kits given to American pilots because it made their urine attractive to fish, making them easier to catch. science1.knoji.com/how-to…
There are 4 types of people. Those who produce and detect a funny smell in their urine after eating asparagus, those who don't produce it but can detect it, those who produce it but can't detect it, and those who don't produce it and can't detect it. bbc.com/future/story/2014…
A man in Texas has owned two cats that both lived to be more than 30 years old, making them the oldest house cats ever recorded. He fed them a diet of bacon, eggs, asparagus, and broccoli, among other things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cre…
Asparagus takes from as little as 2 years all the way up to 4 years to grow from initial planting to harvest stage... and that the United States is the #1 Importer of Asparagus in the world. onthegreenfarms.com/fruit…
Ancient Romans are said to have frozen asparagus in the Alps for the feast of Epicurious to eat it out-of-season, and the Emperor Augustus is said to have built a fleet of ships to transport asparagus around the Roman Empire. asparagus-lover.com/histo…
Learned that the oldest cat ever, who lived to be 38, was fed an unusual diet of, among other things, bacon and eggs, asparagus, broccoli, and coffee with heavy cream. The same owner had another cat that is claimed to have lived to be 34, which was fed the same diet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cre…
George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter, and actually invented a hilarious list of peanut things, including "substitute asparagus" tuskegee.edu/about_us/leg…
Dolley Madison, wife to US President James Madison, preferred oyster flavored ice cream at dinner parties held at the white house. Other popular ice cream flavors at the time included Parmesan cheese ice cream and asparagus ice cream. pbs.org/food/features/ice…
A challenger chef in Iron Chef Japan used 30 high-grade lobsters (said to worth over $1000) just to add flavour to 6 sticks of asparagus. The lobsters were never eaten and discarded. youtu.be/oFzU6Q-3QYU?t=19…
Asparagus makes everyone's pee smell funny, but only 25% of the population can actually notice the difference. Similar to how only a fraction of the population can smell or taste cyanide. webmd.com/food-recipes/fe…
During the filming of "The African Queen," Humphry Bogart consumed nothing but baked beans, canned asparagus, and Scotch Whiskey. Because of this, he was one of the only members of the cast not to contract dysentery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum…
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