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Old 07-09-22, 09:12 AM   #1801
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When a spider is done with its web, it eats it.



This helps them produce more webs.
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Old 07-10-22, 01:39 PM   #1802
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The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
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Old 07-11-22, 07:35 AM   #1803
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Old 07-12-22, 12:03 PM   #1804
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Goosebumps are meant to ward off predators.
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Old 07-13-22, 12:00 PM   #1805
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There's no such thing as "pear cider."
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Old 07-13-22, 12:20 PM   #1806
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There's no such thing as "pear cider."
?? So what is it that I drank a lot of when I lived in Sweden-Päron Cider.

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Old 07-13-22, 12:26 PM   #1807
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"Cider" is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples, and only apples. Alcoholic beverages can be made from pears, but that drink is known as "perry." The drink was popular in England for centuries but fell out of favor during the second half of the twentieth century. That turned around in the 1990s when the drink was rebranded as pear cider.
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"Cider" is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples, and only apples. Alcoholic beverages can be made from pears, but that drink is known as "perry." The drink was popular in England for centuries but fell out of favor during the second half of the twentieth century. That turned around in the 1990s when the drink was rebranded as pear cider.
Thank you for explaining it for me. So you were right.

Well the Pear cider I bought was without alcohol, but in in the Swedish Systembolaget-System company you can buy pear cider with a high percentage alcohol.

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Old 07-14-22, 05:39 AM   #1809
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Humans are the only animals that blush.
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Humans are the only animals that blush.



Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -Mark Twain.
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Old 07-15-22, 05:02 PM   #1811
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The first recorded marriage on roller skates was in 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin between a Miss Hattie Baldwin and Mr. W. McGrath
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Old 07-16-22, 01:47 PM   #1812
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The feeling of getting lost inside a mall is known as the Gruen transfer.
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Old 07-17-22, 01:26 PM   #1813
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The wood frog can hold its pee for up to eight months.
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You lose up to 30 percent of your taste buds during flight.
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In 1924, major light bulb manufacturers banned together to voluntarily down grade the lifespan of incandescent light bulbs in the US and other countries. They also agreed to fix the price.


This was one of the first multinational planned obsolescence schemes.


It did not end until the start of WWII.



Here is a nice documentary on it


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