A. Just in Case You Don’t Know Yet (A/N: Of course you didn't know. Didn't I tell you already or maybe you researched it already)
Did you know that…
.1. … French fries did not originate in France but probably in Belgium?
.2 … a guinea pig is not a pig but a rodent and it is not named after Guinea in Africa or Papua New Guinea but a native to South America?
.3 … tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits not vegetables?
.4 … elephants cannot gallop or jump over ditches, but they readily take to rivers and lakes where the water supports them and enables them to swim for long distances without tiring?
.5 … the word hamburger indeed traces its roots from Hamburg, Germany where the people there used to eat similar food called Hamburg steak?
.6 … the bamboo tree is not a tree but belongs to the grass family?
.7 … butterflies taste with their feet?
.8 … a Portuguese man-of-war is not a soldier or warrior from Portugal but a sea organism resembling jellyfish that lives in warm waters and has a transparent gas-filled float, and long stinging often poisonous tentacles?
.9 … chickenpox is an extremely contagious disease caused by varicella-zoster virus and not by chicken?
.10 … fireflies belong to species of beetles and not flies?
.11 … the so-called black box or the flight data recorder of an airplane is orange in color?
.12 … the milk of Magnesia is not a milk or a dairy product but a trademark for a mixture of magnesium hydroxide and water, which is used as a laxative and antacid?
.13 … a crocodile cannot stick its tongue out?
.14 … the Yellow River in China is in fact yellow in color because of the enormous amount of silt in it?
.15 … spiders are not insects but arachnids, which are usually carnivorous and terrestrial?
.16 … an alligator pear is not an animal but a fruit commonly known as avocado?
.17 … Bermuda grass is a native to southern Europe and not to Bermuda, an island group self-governing dependency of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, USA?
.18 … blackberries are usually small purple fruits and not black in color?
.19 … Indian ink did not originate in India but from China and Japan?
.20 … it is impossible to lick one’s elbow? Try it!
