There was no mention of Apple as the Forbidden Fruit. Possible fruits include apple, grape, pomegranate, fig, carob, etrog or citron, pear, and mushrooms. There was a misunderstanding of β or a pun on β mΔlum, a native Latin noun which means evil and mΔlum, borrowed from Greek ΞΌαΏΞ»ΞΏΞ½ or apple. wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidβ¦
Today I learned of Tiberius Claudius Drusus, the son of Roman Emperor Claudius who was choked by a pear. Claudius Drusus was playing and tossed a pear high in the air. When it came back, he caught it in his mouth but he choked on it. He died of asphyxiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claβ¦
The pearly razorfish (Xyrichtys novacula) has the remarkable ability to escape predators by diving headfirst into the sand in a split-second breathtaking maneuver. It can also use its razor-sharp teeth to cut fishing line and netting by rotating its jaw to more than 90Β° to clip any entanglement. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaβ¦
, nopales picked from a prickly pear cactus taste better if harvested in the morning. Acid content is lower in the morning, but builds with sunlight, so nopales harvested at the end of the day is more bitter. I guess, the early bird catches the sweeter nopales. gardeningknowhow.com/ornaβ¦
Leonard Nimoy only appeared once in public as Spock as the grand marshal of the Pear Blossom Parade in Medford, Oregon in 1967 handitv.com/allstartrek/sβ¦
John Glenn was the first American to eat in space. His menu included a toothpaste-like tube filled with pureed beef and vegetables, a tube packed with applesauce, and some sugar tablets that he dissolved in water. astronomy.com/news/2020/0β¦
Cultured pearls only have a thin layer of nacre (the pearly calcium carbonate) over a non-pearl body while natural pearls are nacre almost all the way through. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culβ¦
The rose family is one of the six most economically important crop plant families. It includes apples, pears, quinces, medlars, loquats, almonds, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and roses among the crop plants belonging to the family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosβ¦
Wisconsin has an area with very sandy soil which is able to support a desert like environment including prickly pear cactus and a few species of lizard. wpr.org/believe-it-or-notβ¦
Today I learned about the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory that studied parapsychology. Established in 1978 at Princeton University by the Dean of Engineering. In short, the lab used the scientific method to show results that can not be explained by our current understanding of science thecrimson.com/article/20β¦
Comic book characters come back to life after dying so often that they are aware of the likely resurrections. Professor X said "in mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors." After one X-Man died, his daughter refused to mourn him because he'd be alive again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comβ¦
Henry Croft, born in a workhouse and raised in an orphanage, went on to become the first Pearly King and 400 Pearly Kings and Queens attended his funeral. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henβ¦
Brad Pit voluntarily went to a dentist to have his front teeth chipped for the role of Tyler Durden in Fight Club. Once production on the film was done, his pearly whites were restored popsugar.com/celebrity/Brβ¦
The "Barney Rubble: trouble" joke from Ocean's Eleven was an example of "Cockney rhyming slang." Other examples include "lemon flavour: favour," "butcher's hook: look," and "apple and pears: stairs." Only lemon, butcher, and apple are spoken. For example: "he did me a lemon." vox.com/2015/2/16/8045999β¦
The worldβs most expensive hot dog is 18β long, on an herb/oil focaccia roll with truffle butter, and grilled. Itβs topped with mustard, garlic/herb mayo, shallots, baby greens, bacon, tomato, moose cheese, cranberries, basil olive oil/pear-cranberry-coconut balsamic vinaigrette, and pepper. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotβ¦
A group of growers got together in 1915 to try and make their "Alligator Pears" sound more appealing. Collectively, they decided to change the name of the fruit to "Avocados." theatlantic.com/health/arβ¦
The Queen's coronation dress had emblems of an English Tudor rose, a Scots thistle, a Welsh leek, an Irish shamrock, an Australian wattle, a Canadian maple leaf, a New Zealand fern, South Africaβs protea, an Indian pearly lotus, an Ceylonese opalescent lotus and Pakistanβs wheat, cotton and jute nga.gov.au/ByAppointment/
There is a monument in Dalby, Queensland commemorating a species of moth that eradicated the invasive Prickly Pear Cactus that had spread across 15000 square miles of Australia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priβ¦
In the United States, the USDA stipulates that canned "fruit cocktail" must contain a certain percentage distribution of pears, grapes, cherries, peaches, and pineapples to be marketed as fruit cocktail. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruβ¦
In 1834, the newspaper Le Charivari was ordered to publish a judgement against them, after they printed a caricature of King Louis-Philippe in the shape of a pear. The newspaper did as instructedβbut the text was in the shape of a pear. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calβ¦
The flowers of a Bradford Pear tree, smell like a mixture of rotting fish and semen. The treeβs flowers smell are likely due to a type of chemical called amines businessinsider.com.au/brβ¦
In the US the Avocado was once called Alligator Pears. A California Avocado collective began pushing to replace the name with the more-exotic and less-menacing βavocado,β a word that was adapted centuries ago from the Aztec βahuacacuahatl,β or βtesticle tree.β theatlantic.com/health/arβ¦
A Danish medical study found that pear-shaped women with wider hips live longer than apple-shaped women who are bigger around the middle. abcnews.go.com/GMA/Healthβ¦
Columbus didn't think the earth was spherical, and actually thought the earth was shaped like a pear, the top of which had "a prominence like a woman's nipple". sacred-texts.com/earth/boβ¦
There is a pungent species of pear tree called Pyrus Calleryana which (during its flowering stage) is known for smelling of either chlorine, rotting flesh or semen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrβ¦
"Stinking Bishop" pears, and the famous cheese made with them, acquired their name on account of the foul reputation of the variety's breeder, a Mr Bishop. He allegedly once shot his kettle after it came to the boil too slowly for his liking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiβ¦
Not all fruits continue to ripen after they're picked. Apricots, bananas, cantaloupe, kiwi, nectarines, peaches, pears, plantains and plums continue to ripen at home. OTOH, apples, cherries, grapefruit, grapes, oranges, pineapple, strawberries, tangerines and watermelon should be picked ripe. food.unl.edu/fruits-contiβ¦
Mint toothpaste is mainly an American invention. Around the world they have more flavors like pear, pumpkin pudding, and curry. science.howstuffworks.comβ¦
Today I learned of Cockney rhyming slang, in which rhyming phrases replace words (and the second rhyme is dropped) to obscure meaning. Because "stairs" rhymes with "apples and pears," you could say "I went up the apples" instead of "I went up the stairs." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyβ¦
A new knee ligament was identified in 2013, 134 years after a French doctor noticed a "pearly, resistant, fibrous band" during a dissection. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2β¦
The Earth is not quite a perfect sphere: it is slightly pear-shaped, elevated at the North Pole and flattened at the South Pole. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proβ¦
The common Bradford Pear tree is also known as the "semen tree" due to its distinctive smell, which has been descried as a cross between rotting fish and semen. businessinsider.com.au/brβ¦
Scarabs are actually a type of dung beetle and because their young hatch from pear-shaped poo-balls, the Egyptians mistakenly inferred that the female beetle was able to reproduce without needing a male. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaβ¦
The Survivor Tree - the last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11, is still going strong. Seedlings of the tree are sent every year to communities that have suffered great tragedy and loss atlasobscura.com/places/sβ¦
Apples, pears, cherries, peaches, raspberries, and strawberries all come from the same plant family, Rosaceae. In biological classification, felines are also a family. Raspberries are as close to apples as cats are to lions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosβ¦
A 4-month-old Cinnamon bear provided much of the voice of Chewbacca. Other Chewbacca noises were voiced by three other bears, a badger, a lion, a seal, and a walrus from Long Beach. theatlantic.com/technologβ¦
"five golden rings" may have originally referred to pheasants, rather than jewelry, so the sequence of birds is uninterrupted. mentalfloss.com/article/3β¦
The eggs of a Common Murre (a seabird) or the Guillemot are pear-shaped and not ellipsoid, to keep them from rolling off sea cliff ledges where they are laid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comβ¦
Sperm Whales got their name from whalers. Apparently, after they cut their heads open they found a pearly white wax substance that resembles sperm. whalefacts.org/spermacetiβ¦
The "Pears Soap" brand was once advertised as "a potent factor in brightening the dark corners of the earth as civilization advances" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaβ¦
The unofficial mascot of Funabashi, Chiba (Japan), is a spastic βpear fairyβ named Funasshii. It won a βRegional Mascot General Electionβ to determine the most popular of the so-called regional mascots. japancrush.com/2013/pictuβ¦
A Japanese submarine shelled California during WWII and the commander directed his gun to fire at a spot where he had an embarrassing fall before the war en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomβ¦
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