Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

This is one of the strangest and rarest plants on the planet. In the bromeliad family, the puya Raimondi, “Queen of the Andes", grows up to 12 feet wide and 50 feet tall. It takes around 90 years to flower, blooms once in a lifetime, producing as many as 20,000 blooms in a 3 month period. No other plant blooms so long, or so prolifically. It then spreads its 12 million seeds and dies by self-combustion. This is on the high-rise of Peru and Bolivia.

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Pink Biz said:
This is one of the strangest and rarest plants on the planet. In the bromeliad family, the puya Raimondi, “Queen of the Andes", grows up to 12 feet wide and 50 feet tall. It takes around 90 years to flower, blooms once in a lifetime, producing as many as 20,000 blooms in a 3 month period. No other plant blooms so long, or so prolifically. It then spreads its 12 million seeds and dies by self-combustion. This is on the high-rise of Peru and Bolivia.

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Just how did they figure out 90 years?
 

The Bel Air native who patented the Ouija Board​

Elijah Jefferson Bond is best known for patenting the Ouija Board in the United States and Canada. The Ouija Board was a 19th century novelty game that was reputed to help players communicate with the dead.
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Elijah Bond died on April 14, 1921 at the home of his son, William B. Bond, in the 3300 block of Clifton Avenue. The obituary stated the cause of death was a "stroke of paralysis." He was buried in an unmarked grave in Green Mount Cemetery.

In 2007, Ouija Board historian and expert Robert Murch located the grave and worked with the cemetery to install an appropriate marker. After obtaining permission from surviving family members, Baltimore’s W.S. Tegeler Monument Company designed a monument reminiscent of a Ouija Board.

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RadishRose said:

The Bel Air native who patented the Ouija Board​

Elijah Jefferson Bond is best known for patenting the Ouija Board in the United States and Canada. The Ouija Board was a 19th century novelty game that was reputed to help players communicate with the dead.
A+photo+of+Elijah+Bond.+He+has+a+beard+and+is+dressed+in+a+black+suit

Elijah Bond died on April 14, 1921 at the home of his son, William B. Bond, in the 3300 block of Clifton Avenue. The obituary stated the cause of death was a "stroke of paralysis." He was buried in an unmarked grave in Green Mount Cemetery.

In 2007, Ouija Board historian and expert Robert Murch located the grave and worked with the cemetery to install an appropriate marker. After obtaining permission from surviving family members, Baltimore’s W.S. Tegeler Monument Company designed a monument reminiscent of a Ouija Board.

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He must've been a fun guy what with his communicating with the dead and all.
 
Sorry if this was posted earlier but I just found this out and feel stupid for not knowing it. I did do some searches to verify and it seems that it is true for the most part.

"My first big recipe was shark repellant that I mixed in a bathtub for the Navy, for the men who might get caught in the water."
Before she mastered the art of French cooking, Julia Child cooked up shark repellent while working for the precursor to the CIA as a covert operative during World War II. Sharks kept unintentionally setting off underwater explosives meant for German U-boats — until Child came up with an inventive recipe that saved the day."


More info here.
Julia Child’s Spy Days Included Work on a Shark Repellent | HISTORY


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