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This will be a thread to post things that you think people may not know or may find interesting. For instance..
Bell peppers and other produce in the nightshade family have sexual organs, so to speak...flowers called "perfect flowers" that are hermaphroditic or unisex. It is a myth that the peppers themselves have genders based upon how many bumps are on their bottoms.
"There is: the pepper plant creates “perfect flowers” also called hermaphroditic or unisex flowers. All plants of the nightshade family follow suit (tomatoes, eggplants, sweet peppers, chili peppers, etc); their flowers contain both stamens and carpels – they have reproductive systems that are both male and female."
https://www.pepperscale.com/male-and-female-peppers/
 

Most people are unaware that there is a time in our lives called before memory. A newborn baby usually isn't even considered a baby at birth since the brain is not fully developed. It is a time of utter trauma for the newborn since everything must be learned. He is now in an alien environment and is terrified of all that exists around him. Cuddling is comforting and that is when the baby begins to settle down. All he knows is hunger and the discomfort of soiling himself. He learns that food is comforting and good, and being clean is also. Each step aids in the brain development and then memory begins. Cry and I'll be fed, cry and I'll be changed, fuss and I'll be cuddled, etc. It is also a learning experience for a new parent since newborns do not come with instructions.
 

The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand. It is over 18 ft long.
The world’s largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand.
 
Are these “female peppers” sweeter?
Sweetness has nothing to do with the number of lobes on your pepper. It has everything to do with your cultivated variety, the soil you’ve grown your peppers in, the weather, and, especially, how long you’ve left the fruits on the vine. Bell peppers that have aged from green to their mature red will be sweeter, no matter if they have three lobes or four.

From this comes "Sweet little old ladies."
 
OneEyedDiva said:
This will be a thread to post things that you think people may not know or may find interesting. For instance..
Bell peppers and other produce in the nightshade family have sexual organs, so to speak...flowers called "perfect flowers" that are hermaphroditic or unisex. It is a myth that the peppers themselves have genders based upon how many bumps are on their bottoms.
"There is: the pepper plant creates “perfect flowers” also called hermaphroditic or unisex flowers. All plants of the nightshade family follow suit (tomatoes, eggplants, sweet peppers, chili peppers, etc); their flowers contain both stamens and carpels – they have reproductive systems that are both male and female."
https://www.pepperscale.com/male-and-female-peppers/
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I grow zucchinis, which have male and female flowers. In early summer, for some reason, the bees don't do the pollinating; not sure why this is -- there are bees buzzing around.

So I use a Q-tip and rape the female flowers with pollen from the male flowers. It works, and after a few weeks the bees take over. It happens like this every year, not sure why. The first few times of the year I have to study the flowers for a moment, cuz I don't remember which are male and which are female. Haha, but true.
 
Lewkat said:
Most people are unaware that there is a time in our lives called before memory. A newborn baby usually isn't even considered a baby at birth since the brain is not fully developed. It is a time of utter trauma for the newborn since everything must be learned. He is now in an alien environment and is terrified of all that exists around him. Cuddling is comforting and that is when the baby begins to settle down. All he knows is hunger and the discomfort of soiling himself. He learns that food is comforting and good, and being clean is also. Each step aids in the brain development and then memory begins. Cry and I'll be fed, cry and I'll be changed, fuss and I'll be cuddled, etc. It is also a learning experience for a new parent since newborns do not come with instructions.
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How do you know this? Has anyone experimented by attaching electrodes to a pregnant woman's abdomen to record the baby's brain activity? An unborn baby can hear, any woman who has borne a baby will know that the baby reacts to loud noises and music.
 
These were studies made by pediatricians in conjunction with those made by pediatric psychologists some years ago. I am not at home right now, but will look up in my reference notes who the most notable doctors were when I leave my son's. Nowhere did I intimate that a baby could not hear and react to stimuli. Of course it can which contributes to its brain development.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
This will be a thread to post things that you think people may not know or may find interesting. For instance..
Bell peppers and other produce in the nightshade family have sexual organs, so to speak...flowers called "perfect flowers" that are hermaphroditic or unisex. It is a myth that the peppers themselves have genders based upon how many bumps are on their bottoms.
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Damn
I did not know that
Guess I better be careful with what I say around the dinner table
 
Born with extra fingers or toes:

Polydactyly

It is one of the most common congenital limb malformations, and is seen in approximately one in every 1,000 live births,” explains Anthony Kouri, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio.Jul 16, 2019

(A cousin was born with the condition, the extra fingers were removed when she was a baby)
 

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