The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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The average French citizen eats 500 snails per year.
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You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac.
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English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid!
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By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.
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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie.
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