Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)
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Last week, an Oregon man named David Schapiro donated his 100th gallon of platelets to the American Red Cross — enough to have saved around 400 lives in the 30 years he’s been donating.
The Kiwi fruit is a native of China, (originally known as the Chinese Gooseberry) and when discovered growing in New Zealand many years ago, it was considered to be a pest and nothing more than a nasty weed.
A few years later some clever people cultivated it, grew it properly, and has now become one of the top exports for New Zealand - both in fruit and plant form. The Kiwi is now grown in many parts of the world, which was a stupid move by the growers here....but we won't go there.
I remember as a kid having to try and cut the damn vines back so we could get rid of them. The fruit back then was small and usually bitter and woody.
A few years later some clever people cultivated it, grew it properly, and has now become one of the top exports for New Zealand - both in fruit and plant form. The Kiwi is now grown in many parts of the world, which was a stupid move by the growers here....but we won't go there.
I remember as a kid having to try and cut the damn vines back so we could get rid of them. The fruit back then was small and usually bitter and woody.
Rowan Atkinson aka Mr Bean and others, plays many bumbling fools in his characters, but Rowan is actually a very smart man with an IQ of 178.
Detective D
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The world's strongest beer packs a walloping 67.5% alcohol rating.
Funny this should come up...... this actually happened here also....
We can't believe that 10 years ago a prankster in Brisbane put New Zealand up for sale on eBay, the online auction site! The Australian tried to auction our whole country for just one Australian cent.
(I suspect the shipping was a killer)
I got to ride the maglev train in Shanghai from the airport to downtown. 300 kph and 15 minutes later we were downtown. It was so smooth you couldn't tell it was moving.
That is 186 MPH. I rode from Shanghai up through Wuxi and when I got back home, I had to tell my then young son, "You know how Kung Fu Panda has the famous Wuxi Finger Hold? Yea, I went through Wuxi!"
