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Peanuts.​

Here’s a fact to blow your mind - peanuts aren’t really nuts at all. Instead, they belong to the legume family, with peas, beans and lentils as their relatives. The word ‘legume’ comes from the French for vegetable.

While most nuts grow on trees, peanuts grow underground. Just over a month after planting, a peanut plant develops yellow flowers, which die just a few days later to reveal ovaries. These then plunge into the soil, where they turn into pods, and each pod contains a pair of peanuts.

Fittingly, before they became commonly called peanuts, they were known as ground nuts or ground peas.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:

Peanuts.​

Here’s a fact to blow your mind - peanuts aren’t really nuts at all. Instead, they belong to the legume family, with peas, beans and lentils as their relatives. The word ‘legume’ comes from the French for vegetable.

While most nuts grow on trees, peanuts grow underground. Just over a month after planting, a peanut plant develops yellow flowers, which die just a few days later to reveal ovaries. These then plunge into the soil, where they turn into pods, and each pod contains a pair of peanuts.

Fittingly, before they became commonly called peanuts, they were known as ground nuts or ground peas.
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And despite that, having a nut allergy usually includes peanuts.
 
Hammi said:
And despite that, having a nut allergy usually includes peanuts.
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Cinders has a nut allergy and when I showed him about the peanuts thingy he told me his first attack was with eating beans.
 
A bit of a strange story........


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TIL Tina Turner's Private Dancer was written by Mark Knofler.
 
Purple & Green said:
Was musing today about primary school and the difference between glockenspiel and a xylophone

Decades of mystery has unfolded to the rather boring and obvious answer that

One has metal things you hit and one has wooden
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I can remember sitting in Leith walk primary learning this now you've mentioned it!
 
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Today I learned that the seating in Edinburgh Playhouse must have been designed for fuckin midgets. I felt like a racing driver getting shoehorned into a cockpit the seat was so tight and my knees were jammed up against the wooden back of the seat in front. And the speakers were gash anaw 😡
 
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Beagle said:
Today I learned that the seating in Edinburgh Playhouse must have been designed for fuckin midgets. I felt like a racing driver getting shoehorned into a cockpit the seat was so tight and my knees were jammed up against the wooden back of the seat in front. And the speakers were gash answer😡
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You should try upstairs at the Tivoli in Aberdeen - they throw in a free vertigo experience due to the slope too.
 
Beagle said:
Today I learned that the seating in Edinburgh Playhouse must have been designed for fuckin midgets. I felt like a racing driver getting shoehorned into a cockpit the seat was so tight and my knees were jammed up against the wooden back of the seat in front. And the speakers were gash anaw 😡
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Castle for the tattoo had the worst leg room i've ever encountered.
 
Trumpery derives from the Middle English trompery and ultimately from the Middle French tromper, meaning "to deceive." (You can see the meaning of this root reflected in the French phrase trompe-l'oeil-literally, "deceives the eye"-which in English refers to a style of painting with photographically realistic detail.) Trumpery first appeared in English in the mid-15th century with the meanings "deceit or fraud" (a sense that is now obsolete) and "worthless nonsense." Less than 100 years later, it was being applied to material objects of little or no value. The verb phrase trump up means "to concoct with the intent to deceive," but there is most likely no etymological connection between this phrase and trumpery.

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Mid 15th century folk knew what was coming.....
 
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Trumpery derives from the Middle English trompery and ultimately from the Middle French tromper, meaning "to deceive." (You can see the meaning of this root reflected in the French phrase trompe-l'oeil-literally, "deceives the eye"-which in English refers to a style of painting with photographically realistic detail.) Trumpery first appeared in English in the mid-15th century with the meanings "deceit or fraud" (a sense that is now obsolete) and "worthless nonsense." Less than 100 years later, it was being applied to material objects of little or no value. The verb phrase trump up means "to concoct with the intent to deceive," but there is most likely no etymological connection between this phrase and trumpery.

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Mid 15th century folk knew what was coming.....
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Also means fart
 
Spend £10k a day and it would last..

..£1m > 100 days
..£1bn > 300 years
 
Watching a wee documentary about Sawney Bean. And I just seen that it is a wee bit of a propaganda from those in Englandshire.....


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after looking at the different strands of Judaism I was a bit taken aback at the name of the most prominent group in Europe.
 

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