Fifty Fascinating Facts
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Money Does Not Grow On Trees. Neither Do Bananas
1. Bananas do not grow on trees but on a root stem that is a perennial herb and the banana is actually a berry. The banana is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All commercial banana plants are clones of a single “mother” and are the Cavendish variety, named after William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire. A cluster of bananas is called a hand. Americans love bananas, they are the fruit of choice and are eaten more than any other to an average twenty six pounds a year per person. Bananas are high in magnesium and potassium but not in beta carotene.
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2. Beta carotene is converted to Vitamin A which is good for eye health and is found in carrots. Carrots are really purple and were cultivated to be orange by crossing mutated yellow and white strains of the vegetable. In earlier times only the leafy above ground part of the carrot was consumed. About 100 BC, a king invented a potion from carrot seeds that neutralized poison. Modern research has proven it effective.
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3. Carrots are one of the vegetables in the famous V-8 juice. The others are tomatoes, celery, beets, parsley, lettuce, watercress, and spinach. Tomato juice is the base and makes up about 87 percent of the total volume. The original name was Vege-min 8 and in 1948 Ronald Reagan was the spokesman for V-8. He could have had a V-8 instead of becoming President.
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4. Speaking of presidents…President George Washington did not have wooden dentures. One dentist was named Dr. John Greenwood and that may have led to the popular misconception. Washington’s false teeth were actually made from ivory, gold and lead. Some animal teeth were attached to the base which was held together by a painful looking spring.
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5. Frank Epperson was not President but was an inventor. The beloved Popsicle was invented by accident when eleven year old Frank left his flavored soda water on the porch with a stir stick in it. The next morning it was frozen solid and became a favorite treat. When Frank was twenty eight, he took the frozen treats to an event where everyone fell for the. The following year in 1923, he received a patent and sold the “Ice Pops” at a California amusement park. Later the patent was bought by the Popsicle Company who mass produced it and we still love them. Thank you Frank!
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6. Eating cold ice creams too fast gives one an “ice cream headache.” The technical term is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”. The condition is caused when cold food or drink are quickly put in the mouth which causes the nerve receptors at the back of the mouth to constrict in an attempt to conserve body heat. This signal is sent to the brain in an instant. When the temperature of the palate returns to normal, nerve centers signal the danger is over and the blood vessels rapidly dilate. This all can happen in seconds, and the end result is a rapid contraction and dilation of blood vessels which causes an extreme, sharp pain in the temples, forehead, or face. Ice cream is a favorite food of children everywhere.
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7. The world’s youngest mother was a child. Lina Medina who was born on September 27, 1933 and gave birth when she was only five years old. She lived in Peru and her parents thought she had a tumor and took her into a hospital to be treated. She was eight months pregnant and gave birth to a boy baby by cesarean section on May 14, 1939. She had a medical condition called precocious puberty and according to her mother, Lina began her menstrual cycle at age two and a half. Her breasts had developed by age four and when doctors examined Lina at age five (after giving birth) she was found to have developed sexual organs. NOTE: Lina never named the father of her child who grew to be a man and died in 1979 at age forty from a bone marrow disease. She lived to a ripe old age while many people would have killed themselves.
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8. More women than men attempt suicide, three times as many in fact. However four men for every one female actually kill themselves. No one really understands why. Women probably remember all they need to take care of and just get up resigned to living on.
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9. The world’s most prolific mother was the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev killed herself. She lived in Shuya, Russia from about 1707-? She gave birth to 69 children; sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. After she died, her husband somehow convinced another lady to marry him. Twins ran in the family.
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10. Identical twins have virtually the same DNA but different fingerprints which are formed in the uterus and are affected by embryonic fluid. Therefore no two are alike although identical twins have similar prints. Some twins play with each other in the womb including kisses and tickling.
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11. A person cannot tickle himself because the brain anticipated the sensation and eliminates the element of surprise. But when another person tickles us, there are unexpected sensations and feeling that catch the brain unaware and allow the tickle sensation to be activated.
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12. Upper and Lowercase letters came about because capitals were stored in the higher area of the printer’s box. It came to be common in the business to refer to them as upper and lower case and remains to this day.
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13. Alexander Graham Bell did not answer the telephone with “Hello” but with “Ahoy” which is thought to derive from the Old Middle English word “Hoy” and that from the Dutch “Hoi.” But Thomas Edison preferred a simple “Hello” and it quickly became more popular and we continue the tradition even now.
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14. DomiNicks Pizza was purchased in 1961 for five hundred dollars by two brothers. Eight months later brother James got burned out and traded his half to his brother for a used Volkswagen Beetle. Thirty eight years later, the remaining brother, Tom traded most of his stock in Dominos for more than one BILLION dollars. Ouch! That’s gotta hurt!
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15. SOS scouring pads was named by the creator’s wife and means Save Our Saucepans. Way back in 1917 Ed Cox would leave a little scouring pad as a business card when trying to sell pots. They became so popular that he began manufacturing and selling the pads instead. They are still used to clean up messes of all kinds mostly dried on foods including candy.
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16. In 1923 thousands of Baby Ruth candy bars were fitted with tiny parachutes and dropped over the city of Philadelphia. The parachutes were to prevent injury to the people below. At least they sis not drop anything heavy-like a camel.
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17. The worlds most complicated menu item had been documented by The Guinness Book of World Records and consists of a whole camel stuffed with a lamb which is stuffed with chickens which are stuffed with eggs. Any remaining space is filled with rice and nut stuffing. Anyone hungry? The recipe can be found in the 1983 edition of the International Cuisine cookbook. Please do not attempt to quick serve this meal as it takes about twenty four hours to cook a whole, cleaned camel but feeds a large family of about eighty people. They dip the juices in home baked bread.
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18. A bread slicer was first used in 1928 and the first loaves offered for sale. It was called Sliced Kleem Maid Bread and was very popular. Sales skyrocketed and then presliced bread became a hit with housewives in America in 1930 when Wonder Bread became available presliced. But the love affair almost died when presliced bread was banned on January 18, 1943 by the Secretary of Agriculture. The commonly thought reason was to conserve resources of wheat, steel and wax paper which the bread was wrapped in at the time. The public quickly proclaimed its opinion and the ban was lifted on March 8, 1943.
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19. Hamburger buns are presliced bread. Hamburgers do not contain any ham but traditionally are beef patties. Asian workers would place packets of beef between their saddles while they rode so it would become softened and tenderized. Visiting Germans observed this and took the idea back to Hamburg with them. Gradually it came to be called Hamburg meat and immigrants brought it to the United States. The first real American hamburger using a bun was served in 1904 at the St. Louis World’s Fair. White Castle was the first hamburger chain, begun in 1921. The famous Big Mac was birthed in 1968 and cost forty nine cents. The world’s biggest burger weighed in at 8,266 pounds. That is a meal fit for a King.
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20. King Henry the Eighth loved to eat. Foods were beef, pork, poultry, mutton and wild venison, swan, hare and other animals. The royal court hunted in forests for sport and the meat was brought back to the castle for consumption. Penalties for poaching on the King’s lands included having one’s hands cutoff or even death. One would have to be blind to encroach on restricted areas.
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21. Bats are NOT blind. Bats have two types of photoreceptor cells, cones and rods that help them see in light and in darkness. Some bats use their sense of hearing more than their eyesight but can still see though poorly in some cases. Bats take great care of their babies.
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22. A baby bird will not be abandoned by the mother if handled by a human. Birds have little sense of smell and will probably not even notice the scent from a human hand. They will fly away and watch from a distance until the danger has passed. Some birds use paper scraps when making their nests. They have even been known to use small stones and jewels.
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23. Diamonds are NOT formed from coal. It contains too many impurities and lies too close to the earth’s surface. Diamonds are formed from pure carbon and need extreme heat and pressure which is found deep in the planet’s mantle. Coal can form graphite which is commonly used for pencils. Write that in your diary while you cuddle and kiss your little doggie.
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24. A dog’s mouth is not cleaner than a human mouth. Dogs lick their own butts and any other one that will stand still long enough. They will sniff at dog feces in the yard and eat insects, worms and garbage. So bacteria from feces and dirt are found in a dog’s mouth. Down Rover! But they sure are cute with that canine grin, wagging tail and tongue.
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25. A human can not swallow his/her tongue. When a person is having a convulsion do not force an item into their mouth to prevent this. It cannot happen because the tongue is attached to the mouth by a muscle called the lingual frenulum. If assisting a convulsing person, roll them onto their side to prevent choking from saliva, vomit or air blockage. Support the person’s head.
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26. A cockroach can live without its head for a week or so and te severed head can live for hours. A cockroach does not have blood pressure but an open circulatory system. The heart is a tube that pumps blood back and forward and can actually stop without damaging the body. Each segment allows the insect to breathe receive air through the tissues. Therefore the body can live a month in cooler temperatures and a low metabolic rate but eventually die from lack of water.
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27. Harry Chiti almost died- not from lack of water but from embarrassment. He was a Major League Baseball player and was actually traded-for himself. He was not a great ball player and in 1962 the Indians traded him to the Mets for a “player to be named later”. Chiti played lousy for fifteen games and the Mets had enough so they traded him back to the Indians using the designated “player to be named later card.” So he is the only ball player to ever be traded for himself. I feel badly for him. He was traded between time zones.
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28. Three cheers for Daylight Savings Time! Back in 1999 a terrorist group planned to blow up two buses full of innocent people. The terrorists were in the West Bank and smuggled bombs to their counterparts in Israel which was on Standard time while the West Bank was on Daylight Savings Time. The bomb timers were set accordingly and detonated one hour earlier than intended. The three terrorists were killed instead of the dozens on targeted buses.
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29. The International Space Station continually travels over time zones. It orbits Earth at more than seventeen thousand miles per hour and circles the planet every ninety two minutes or so. So the astronauts see a sunrise/sunset every forty five minutes-fifteen or sixteen each twenty four hour period. What an experience to tell the grandkids!
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30. Astronauts love Tang and coffee. Coffee beans are really not beans at all. They are the seeds of the plant, the pit inside the fruit. Some well respected institutions started out as coffeehouses. These include Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange. Coffee is one of the most traded commodities in the world, second only to oil. More than one billion cups of coffee are drunk daily by grateful people the world over. The term Cup of Joe comes from the American GI Joes who loved the Maxwell House coffee in their ration packs during World War Two. Pez candy was a favorite of soldiers.
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31. The delicious candy and collectible dispensers called Pez comes from the German word pfefferminz or peppermint. It was a breath mint when first designed in Austria in 1927. The dispensers were not created until 1948 and were an instant success and have become a cultural icon of goodness. There is even an earthworm Pez dispenser.
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32. Earthworms are both male and female and after mating, both produce eggs. The offspring emerge fully mature and ready to turn garbage and waste into fertile soil. In 1967 an earthworm was found beside a road. It was twenty two feet long! Earthworms breathe through their skin which is why they come to the surface after a heavy rain. At least they breathe without thinking about it.
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33. Dolphins must consciously breathe so they cannot totally go to sleep like most mammals do. Half of their brain sleeps while the other remains awake and alert. Then they alternate sides for about eight hours a day so they rest while still breathing and surfacing for air. That must make one’s head spin.
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34. Earth spins around Old Sol at 66,600 miles an hour. And rotates on the axis over 1,000 miles per hour. The solar system races around the Milky Way at 559,234 mph and the galaxy is going somewhere at the fast pace of 671,080 miles per hour. This brings to mind the Bible scripture that says, “Be still and know that I am God.”
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35. Most men in the Bible wore beards. Amish men wear beards but not mustaches. In old Europe military soldiers often sported mustaches and the Amish were greatly persecuted by them. So the religious group did not permit moustaches and it was a way to distinguish themselves as pacifists. Young men shave until they marry, then grow the mandatory beard, marking him as a man. Today in America about two hundred thousand people adhere to the old ways of the Amish. A typical Amish wedding is held at the bride’s home, lasts about four hours and the bride and groom do not kiss or exchange wedding rings.
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36. A famous kisser is the Muppet character Miss Piggy. She kisses her beloved against his wishes. Her full name is Pigathis Lee which is from the Greek meaning River of Passion, but she goes by Lorelei. For those who have recorded the Muppet series, refer to Episodes 106 and 116. She is in love with Kermit the frog and has a pet poodle named Foo-Foo, but doesn’t have any pet fish.
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37. Clownfish are all born male and some become female later in life. This is called sequential hermaphrodite. Clownfish are a matriarchal society and live very to home, limiting the potential for a mate. When the female dies, the dominant male grows bigger and becomes the female. He/she then chooses a mate from the available males. And the cycle continues as the world turns. The movie Finding Nemo was about a clownfish. Movies are very popular.
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38. Star Wars was one of the most successful movies ever made. Attention Star Wars Fans! Yoda’s full name was originally Minch Yoda. George Lucas decided to keep the little green man mysterious and not reveal too many details about him. Yoda is sixty six centimeters tall, making him a little over two feet. Frank Oz is the voice of Yoda and also Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster and other Muppet characters.
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39. The movie trailers shown at theaters all have a particular background and text color which has certain meanings. The text color is for the film itself and the background color is to show the preview’s rating as well as text. The colors on the rating cards used are green, red or yellow and are set by the MPAA. For example green means “for appropriate audiences” and is determined by the type of movie the people are there to watch and does not mean for children necessarily. Theatre trailers must be less than two minutes and thirty seconds.
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40. A famous show and subsequent movies were the Star Trek series. The Star Trek regular Scotty was played by James Doohan who was not Scottish at all but Canadian. He landed on Juno Beach on D-Day, and was shot six times. His brother had given James a silver cigarette case which was in his breast pocket. A bullet to the chest was deflected by this case and it saved his life. Scotty’s full name was Montgomery Scott, James Doohan’s actual middle name. In three episodes a sharp eyed viewer can see that “Scotty” is missing a finger. It was shot off when James was wounded on D-Day. Doohan married his third wife when she was seventeen and he was fifty four. They had three children together and remained married for thirty one years when he died in 2005.
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41. Pablo Picasso could have painted some of the alien landscapes shown in the Star Trek movies. He was born in Spain and one of his most famous paintings was The Old Guitarist which he painted in 1903. A woman’s face is superimposed just over and on the man’s neck. Pablo Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. There are eleven i’s in his name.
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42. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle and means a very small amount, an iota. Jesus knew this when He said in Matthew 5: 18, “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.” Tittle is from the same Latin word as title but the meanings have changed over centuries of use.
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43. The world’s longest book title is “Per favore dite a mia madre che faccio il pubblicitario lei pensa che sono un pierre e che quindi regalo manciate di free entry e consumazioni gratis a chi mi pare, rido coi vips, i calciatori le veline e le giornaliste, leggo Novella e mi fotografano i paparazzi, entro neI privé saltando la coda, bevo senza pagare, sono ghiotto di tartine e gin tonic, ho la casa piena di oggetti di design, conosco Paris Hilton, Tom Ford ed Emilio.” The world’s longest book was written during the Ming dynasty between 1403-1407 and three thousand scholars worked on it. The title is Yongle Dadian and contains 11,095 volumes with22,877 chapters and about 370 million characters.
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44. Toilet paper was not originally an American invention or convenience. It has been documented back to the sixth century in the Chinese Imperial court. The Zhejiang province was a major manufacturer of toilet paper and made approximately ten million packets a year. One could say the Chinese “wiped” out the competition. In 1973 Johnny Carson made a joke that there was a toilet paper shortage and for the next three weeks stores could not keep it on the shelves as people hoarded the treasured rolls like gold or diamonds.
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45. The world’s most expensive paper is from a private collection of ancient papers from the 14th century. One sheet can be purchased for $13,760. That is enough to give a person a heart attack.
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46. The inventor of the first artificial heart saved many lives but is best known for another career. He was a ventriloquist and his dummies now reside in the Smithsonian. Mr. Paul Winchell also invented a blood plasma defroster, a retractable fountain pen, a flameless lighter and many more amazing items. He was the voice of many animated characters. These include Gargamel on the Smurfs, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too. The famous Tigger goodbye was coined by Mr. Winchell. “Ta-Ta for now!” Children love this series of books and movies.
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47. Children also love books, poetry and rhymes. The English language has many rhyming words but nothing rhymes with purple, orange, month or silver.
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48. Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham is a rhyming book. It was written because the author’s editor challenged him to write a book in fifty words or less. Dr. Seuss’s real name is Theodor Geisel.
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49. Actors, musicians and celebrities often change their names. Some real names are:
- Actress Jennifer Aniston-Jennifer Linn Anastassakis
- Actor Yul Brenner-Taidje Khan
- Singer Alice Cooper-Vincent Damon Furnie
- Actor Tom Cruis-Thomas Cruise Mapother
- Wrestler Hulk Hogan-Terry Jean Bollea
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50. FACT. These fascinating facts will not fascinate everyone. They did me and I hope they fascinate you also. Enjoy.
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They fascinated me too! Read every one of em and will now have to admit I'm not as facts savvy as I thought. You did some mighty research on these and they're all winners. Would love to comment on a bunch but won't be a spoiler. How-about just no. 17 & 49: Stuffed Camel anyone? Anastassakis-what! Awesome facts n awesome Hub Hyph.
Great hub with tons of information. Vote you up and awesome great lady because must have done so much research.
Wow - that was very interesting. I particularly liked the part about the Dr. Seuss book. I never realized Green Eggs and Ham was under 50 words... I am very tempted to go count them! Maybe I will have my kids do it. Very well done! Great research!
This is subterfuge to throw us off the scent of the opus you are preparing for the November contests. Now, to go cut off the head of a neighbors cockroach to see the results.
Great hub, Hyphen! Very interesting and informative. I only had heard of a few of these fascinating facts: George Washington's teeth, upper/lower case letters, SOS pads, the Amish, toilet paper coming from the Chinese. The rest were all new to me. Thanks for an entertaining hub! I liked how you linked all the hubs together with a "transition" from the hub before. Very creative.
These are great. Carrots were originally purple? Who ever knew? I particularly liked the origin of upper and lower case letters. That makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing these fascinating facts.
Hi Becky. Did you remember the trivia fact? This was so much fun to put together. I actually started purring each one with a photo but quickly became overwhelmed. I was lie Fifty photos! Are you crazy woman?!
I am so glad you enjoyed these my friend.
Hello Alastar. Those are really wild. Number 17 really amazed me. That would be an unforgettable experience indeed. The research on this Hub was tiring but fun at the same time. I loved it all. Thanks for coming by to read and I am thrilled you were also fascinated.
Hi there writer20. Really the research was huge but the payoff is amazing. Thanks for the votes. You are the best!
Hi barbergirl. I almost listed them but the Hub was so long already that I decided not to. You can read them at his official website and they are so small. I was surprised. I love writing challenges and apparently he did too. It was good of you to come by and comment on this Hub.
mckbirdbks, you know me so well. I really do love learning about new things. So this Hub was a pleasure to write although I do still want a photo on every one. That was just too much to think about however. Thanks for the encouragement on the contest.
Brenda, It is in your email.
That was fasntastic. Definitely voting up!
What a great hub Hypenbird.
This is what I love about HP is that we never know what subject we will be reading next.
I loved this one and as well as voting up I am also bookmarking.
Take care and have a great day.
Eiddwen.
Hello Suzette. I love history and trivia of all kind (except celebrity. So this one was fun for me. I wanted pictures but that would make this really long. I am glad you noticed that transition. I thought it would help the flow. Thanks so much for coming by and leaving your ever so kind comments.
Hi there ktrapp. Isn't that awesome about carrots? Heirloom carrot seeds will produce purple yield. I just love this stuff and thought I would share. I am so pleased you enjoyed them. Thanks for dropping by.
Thank you Jaxon. This Hub was so much fun for me. I am glad you liked it.
Hello Eiddwen. I agree with you. The variety is amazing. If I were in school I probably would be called ADHD because my mind goes so many places. But I am so curious. I am glad my loyal Hub friends are too. It was nice to see you today here on the Hub.
Wow... a child giving birth... that is something I didn't expect to see. Especially since she was so young! Who did they think the father was or was there no suspects?
Say what!? Bananas don't grow on trees? Now you have me truly confused.
Hi Phoebe. I was so saddened and shocked at this story. It was suggested that Lina was raped by her father but the charges could not be proven true and he was released. Lina's child was raised as her brother for ten years when he discovered she was indeed his mother. There is a very shocking picture on Snopes showing Lina nude with developed breasts and fully pregnant. The doctor took it before he performed the C-section.
Cleverly done Hyphenbird! I liked how you linked one fact with the other. I love trivia and this was an interesting read!
Wow, what a Wonderful Hub, some people call this "Trivia" ...what a Great Read Hyphenbird...So many Facts so much Information. I can't imagine a Child giving birth at age 5. OMG. On a Happier note...Hooray for the History of Toilet Paper. I am going to Bookmark this Hub. Thank YOU!
Very fun facts. Except for the roach. Now I know stomping on them is the way to go! With someone elses show of course. lol!!!
Absolutely fascinating. Bookmarked and voted up and extremely interesting. Thanks, Hypenbird, for posting this all in one hub :)
Wonderful hub and quite fascinating. Am bookmarking it and passing it along on FB. Blessings.
Dave, that is funny. I have seen banana plants and they are quite unique. A friend in Florida had some in her yard. It is amazing what we assume. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks North Wind. I thought tying them together would make the Hub more interesting and create almost a story feeling. I appreciate you coming by. I also love this kind of stuff, it is a fun way to learn.
Hi there b.Malin. I was concerned that fifty might be too much but they were all so interesting. I could pull from my collection for hours. And I agree with you. YEAH for toilet paper. And for the Muppets!
This was so much fun..Poor Feodor, 69 kids, may She RIP I was especially pleased to learn that Mother birds do-not abandon their babies if touched by a human..Lots of good info. Thank you.....
Hi Lynn. I agree with you. Roaches are so gross. I am glad you liked this otherwise. It was fun to put together.
Wow! You sure did your research. Applause is due you! I like #43. Think one of us hubmasters can beat that title?
Thanks Martie. I was a bit concerned it was too long and am glad I went ahead with it.
lambservant, I appreciate your linking to this Hub. Thank you very much for that and for your time and comments.
This was indeed very fascinating, quite a few of these facts left me slack-jawed. Wonderful job, and kudos on all of the research this must have taken.
Loved it- what gargantuan effort, and I'm glad to know I can touch baby birds! Love yaz, lily
AWESOME! Another fact about roaches, they can be motivated to run faster. Learned this in psychology class. A researcher discovered that roaches run faster when they "see" other roaches running faster. Here's the exerpt and link:
"Activation theory: In 1965, Robert Zajonc proposed the first Activation Theory for social facilitation. Zajonc’s Generalized Drive Hypothesis was the first theory that addressed why sometimes the presence of others increases performance, and sometimes the presence of others decreases performance. Zajonc argued that the presence of others serves as a source of arousal, and heightened arousal increases the likelihood of an organism to do well-learned or habitual responses. For this reason, arousal improves performance on simple (well-learned) tasks, but impairs performance on complex (not well-learned) tasks (see Yerkes-Dodson law). Zajonc’s reasoning was based on Yerkes-Dodson’s law, which holds that performance works like an inverse “U” function. This means that an individual’s optimal drive is higher for simpler, or well-practiced tasks, and that the same individual’s optimal drive is lower for more complex, or less-practiced tasks. The presence of other people further arouses us and increases our drive level, so if a task is simple, an individual’s performance will be enhanced because of the high levels of energy, but performance will be diminished on more complex tasks.[2] Zajonc tested his theories by having people complete word association tasks alone and again in the presence of others. Zajonc also learned that Social Facilitation was not a phenomenon restricted to human beings, since he found that cockroaches ran through easy mazes faster when other cockroaches were watching them or also running through the maze (coactors), than when the cockroaches ran through the maze alone. However, cockroaches ran slower through hard mazes when there were other cockroaches present or running through it than when they ran through it alone.[2]"
Hello always. Yes, 69 kids and living with that man would make any woman desperate to get out of there. It is amazing what we learn about this big world of ours and all the folks in this spin with us. It was good to see you today, I am glad you enjoyed this.
Thank you Susie. It was a lot of work but fun. I also like #43 and don't think any of us will top that one. I am so pleased you liked this and appreciate you coming by.
thank you Katy. Trivia is a brain exercise and this is my way of giving us all a brain boost. laugh I am glad you enjoyed this.
Hi Lily. Yes this took a lot of work but it was quite entertaining. I have about a hundred more great facts. I may publish Part 2 in the future. Just don't squeeze the baby birds. lol
A.A.that is fascinating indeed. All I can say is any cockroach that makes the mistake of coming into my house better be a fast runner. Ick!!!! But thanks for that information. They really are amazing creatures.
Oh, my, Miss Pigathis Lee... (poor dear must be in therapy with that name...) That's my girl and I love her moxy!
I also love the heart, soul and energy you put into this, dear hyph and I am going to need to bookmark! There are just too many tidbits that I need to refer back to! Voted UP & UFABI (didn't miss one button), mar.
Hi Hyphenbird, 50 wonderful, interesting, and fascinating facts!
I too am blown away by number 1 'bananas don't grow on trees'
Brilliant stuff, will be bookmarking to read again and voting up, best wishes MM
Hello marcoujor. I adore Miss Piggy. She takes no gruff from anyone but melts like butter for Kermit. I appreciate the bookmark. This was hard work but a labor of love for me. Thanks for the votes too dear one.
Hi Movie Master. Isn't that a shocker?! Just when I think I am so smart, I learn just how little I really know. laugh
I am pleased that everyone has liked this so much. Thanks for being you.
Hello, Hyphenbird,
I believe this is the most knowledge I have ever picked up in one place.
Also, this is an excellent and informative post. Thank you very much for compiling, writing and publishing it. It is very educational.
Hi feenix. You have been visiting many of my Hubs today. Thank you for that. This was fun to research and write. I learned so much myself. I am glad you enjoyed it.
Hi Hyphenbird,
This is my first visit to your hubs and I was fascinated by this interesting facts you have here...so much knowledge/awareness in one shot...priceless!
thanks!
Hyphen...
I'm not sure which I liked more...some of these crazy facts or how you wonderfully linked them all together! The image of stuffing a goat into a camel...not to mention all the garnish and what not...will be what goes to sleep with me. That is awesome.
Thanks!
Thomas
Very interesting facts. I eat 26 pounds of bananas every two months I bet since I put them in my protein shakes. And last night, I had an ice cream headache!
Hi Ruchira. It is great to meet you here on HP. I am so pleased you stopped in at this Hub. It was so much fun to put together. I figure now we have a shot at winning Jeopardy or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. lol Thank you for coming by and for your great comments.
Hello Thought. How are you? Yeah that whole camel thing kinda made me queasy. But I am not a meat eater. Some of the things I found out while researching were so amazing. Thanks for stopping by. Regards to you, Hyphen.
See festersporling1, how helpful and timely these are! We live in an amazing world. Enjoy your Cavendish! laugh.
...well this shall be bookmarked dear Miss B as I have run out of time and must dash out the door to work but I will post this most fascinating hub by one of the most fascinating and lovely women I know to my FACEBOOK page with a direct link back here and bid you farewell and good evening and see you again down THUNDER ROAD - lol - obvious reference to you know who!!!!
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Hi there Epi. How nice to see you. Thanks for the links and promotion. I hope your night at work was productive and that you had fun. What kind of work do you have? See you tomorrow on that Thunder Road contest page.
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These are very fascinating indeed- I knew some, was surprised by others, and HORRIFIED by one: the fact about the five-year-old giving birth! Yikes!
Hi Simone. I am glad you liked these. I also was horrified about that little girl. While researching, I saw a photo of her pregnant and it was so awful I cried. Some man should have received a brutal vasectomy!
Hey Hyphenbird.... as an FYI this is the 4th time I have seen you linked to the FB page! You are starting to pop up all over the place. I suppose we need to keep our eye on you and lots of support and love to you!
Dallaswriter, I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know and for the well wishes.
Thank you Hyphenbird for teaching me something new today. I'll pass on the info regarding the twins to my grandtwins! Do I see a part 2 in the future? Another Fifty Facts :))
Hi Sunshine. I thought that was interesting also. Perhaps there should be a Part 2. I have run across so many great trivia fact. I probably have hundreds. I appreciate you coming by to read my Hub. I hope you found it "fascinating".
Your 50 amazing facts are indeed fascinating. I took special notice on your Fact No. 7 about Lina Medina because I've a hub posted about her here in hubpages. Here's more about her: http://www.webanswers.com/current-events/current-e
Hello nick71438. I will read your Hub about Lina. Bless her. Thank you for reading my fascinating facts.
Becky Katz Level 8 Commenter 6 months ago
Awesome fun facts. I was going to tell you one but by the time I got to the comments, I had forgotten what it was. If I think of it I will come back. Love ya