Tidbits
Tidbits
/ˈtɪtbɪt/ - noun/plural - a small piece of tasty food / a small and particularly interesting item of gossip or information
Avocado droppings: in millennia gone by, large roaming beasts like mammoths devoured avocados whole and excreted the pits further along their journeys (complete with heaps of organic fertiliser). This facilitated the spread of the fruit over great distances.
source: Fun facts about avocados
The heaviest known giant pumpkin reached a weight of 1,226 kg – about that of a small car! Its grower, Stefano Cutrupi, from Italy, was again crowned the European champion in 2022 – with a pumpkin weighing ‘just’ 1,100.5 kg.
Sushi chefs are held in very high esteem in Japan as it takes a whole 10 years of training to qualify as a master chef. Their lesson plan in the first few years includes learning how to hold a sushi knife correctly.
A fortuitous accident: in 1945, the American inventor Percy LeBaron Spencer happend to have a chocolate bar in his pocket while experimenting with electromagnetic radiation as part of his research on radar systems. He noticed that the chocolate wondrously melted - and the microwave was born.
Source: technologyreview.com
Bananas stay fresh longer when stored hanging on a hook.
Carrots stay crisp when kept in a water bath in the fridge. The water should be changed now and then.
Due to the characteristics of the oesophagus, people can still drink a glass of water whilst doing a handstand.
Apples, pears, cherries and strawberries are all part of the rose family.
Cheese is the food product that is stolen most frequently in the whole world
Lachanophobia is fear of vegetables.
Pumpkins originate from Mexico.
Lemons float in water, but limes sink.
Humans and bananas share 50% of their DNA.
People eat sharks 600,000 times more frequently than sharks eat people.
When you salt pineapple, it becomes sweeter.
The world's largest apple was picked in Japan in 2005: the magnificent fruit weighed 1.849 kilograms.