Sydney water is treated with just a little bit of flouride. It helps with dental maintenance. Does America do that?
Small difference. One cleans your teeth, the other CONTROLS YOUR MIND, MAN! WAKE UP PEOPLE, BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!! Also, the tinfoil in stores is diluted to the point where you can't even make your own hat for protection! If anyone's interested in a DIY for an effective tinfoil hat, send me a message.
How are we defining "vegetable" for this? ETA: I'm thinking of cattails, dandelion, fiddleheads, etc. - I'm pretty sure they're all native, and we eat the vegetative portions of them (like, not the seeds or the fruits)...
I'm still puzzling over how a plant native to North America got Jerusalem in its name... Also, isn't maize North American? Wikipedia says Mexico, which qualifies.
Oh, if we add Central American into the mix I think we'd add lots more vegetables. Again, though, may depend on how you're defining vegetables. Tomatoes are a fruit, botanically. Maize - is it a grain, because we're eating the seeds?
There's a species of giant centipede that lives in caves, whose poisonousness bite results in such excruciating pain victims have been known to plunge their hands into boiling water to mask it.
Somehow I read this as "plunge their heads into boiling water" and I thought, whoah... Keanu-style "whoah".
Warning: This useless fact is about spiders and features large pictures of spiders behind spolier buttons... This slow-moving, spindly, almost transparent and generally rubbish looking spider: Spoiler: Pholcus Hunts this big-ass, scuttling terrfying monster: Spoiler: Tegenaria And for that reason, Phlocus are honoured guests in my house. There are dozens of them. They sit there, quiet and unobtrsuive and once in a while they kill some critter I do not want to see suddenly scurrying across the carpet. Truly God's Best Spider.
Well, it's got such big legs that it body really isn't all it's size. Apparently it uses smarts to catch those spiders though. Manipulating them by mimicking prey movements on the web, and using webbing to trap prey without risking it fragile legs. Pretty cool. I super like this post for bringing up cool biology.
A biologist friend of mine told me about this when I was explaining to him how 'cellar spiders' are the only kind I'm not afraid of (not that I bore people or anything). I thought he was having me on... then I rather inhumanely fed a small house spider to a Pholcus. Never seen anything move so fast in my life. Knocked the house spider to the floor and bundled it up in a couple of seconds, then winched it up to its web and spent the next few days eating it. It's the difference in the way they move that amazes me as much as anything. Tegenaria moves like it's in the SAS. Pholcus ambles about like it's stoned: somehow wins.
There's a type of star called a magnetar. It's typically about 10 miles in diameter and has such a strong magnetic pull that it can suck the iron out of your blood from 50 million miles away.