2007-07-17 11:23:53 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Pumpkin seeds can be roasted as a snack.
Pumpkins contain potassium and Vitamin A.
Pumpkins are used for feed for animals.
Pumpkin flowers are edible.
Pumpkins are used to make soups, pies and breads.
The largest pumpkin pie ever made was over five feet in diameter and weighed over 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, 12 dozen eggs and tok six hours to bake.
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Pumpkins are members of the vine crops family called cucurbits.
Pumpkins originated in Central America.
In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling.
Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites.
Pumpkins range in size from less than a pound to over 1,000 pounds.
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds.
The name pumpkin orginated from "pepon" – the Greek word for "large melon."
The Connecticut field variety is the traditional American pumpkin.
Pumpkins are 90 percent water.
Pumpkins are fruit.
Eighty percent of the pumpkin supply in the United States is available in October.
In colonial times, Native Americans roasted long strips of pumpkin in an open fire.
Colonists sliced off pumpkin tops; removed seeds and filled the insides with milk, spices and honey. This was baked in hot ashes and is the origin of pumpkin pie.
Native Americans flattened strips of pumpkins, dried them and made mats.
Native Americans called pumpkins "isqoutm squash."
Native Americans used pumpkin seeds for food and medicine.
2007-07-17 11:27:24 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that when opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Did you know that each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Did you know that if a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Did you know that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Did you know that Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Did you know that the Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Finally...... Did you know that in every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
2007-07-17 18:32:31 · answer #2 · answered by Be me 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ancient Egyptians regared a tattoo as a sign of wealth, The dot of ther letter i is called a tittle. The apparatus for measuring feet at a shoe store is a Brannok device, If the entire population of China were to walk past you single file, you would not live long enough to see the end of the line, Hope this usless info works for ya
2007-07-17 19:51:05 · answer #3 · answered by Steph! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Sequoia is the LARGEST living thing on the planet. It can grow to over 300 feet high. It will drink about 800 gallons of water per tree, per day. Some have been known to drink a swimming pool ampount in a day. The Bristlecone pine is the OLDEST living thing on the planet. Some over 3500 years old.
2007-07-17 18:27:52 · answer #4 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The first european baby to be born is america was Virginia Dare
Houston is the 4th biggest city in the US
I am wearing silk boxers
Neptunium has yet to be used in a weapon of mass destruction
I think #3 was a hell of alot more important then any of the others.
2007-07-17 18:27:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Eveready Batteries.
He gave the company away to work on model trains.
This foolish man was Joshua L. Cowen. .
Cowen was your typical turn of the century inventor. Lots of ideas - some that worked, some that didn't.
His first major invention was intended to revolutionize photography. He designed a fuse to ignite magnesium powered flashes, but the invention was a dud.
His best customer for his fuses was the U. S. Navy. They didn't want to take pictures with his fuses, however. They bought 24,000 of them in 1898 to detonate underwater mines.
His next creation was the development of little metal tubes that were designed to illuminate flowers in their pots.
These illuminated flower pots were difficult to perfect (if he could have gotten them to dance to music, he would have earned a fortune). Cowen became bored with his flower pot lights and in 1898 gave the project away to one of his salesmen - some guy named Conrad Hubert. Hubert could care less about the lighted flower pots. Instead, he liked the device Cowen developed to operate them - a lightbulb and dry cell battery combination that had a 30 day life.
Hubert took Cowen's battery operated device and developed it into the flashlight. The company that Cowen gave away was named the American Eveready Company, and it earned Hubert nearly six million dollars in two decades (a large sum of money for the turn of the century). When Hubert died, he left behind a $15,000,000 estate, virtually all earned from Cowen's invention.
One would think that Cowen would feel like a real loser for giving an idea like Eveready batteries away for nothing, but he actually came up with a better idea that earned him even more money.
What I failed to mention was that the "L" in Joshua L. Cowen's name stood for Lionel - as in Lionel trains.
When Cowen gave away his flower pot light company, he turned his attention to these small electrical devices.
The first Lionel train that he produced was a flatbed car that ran on batteries.
He sold them as eye catching displays for shop windows. However, people quickly wanted them for their homes, particularly for under the Christmas tree.
By 1906, he had introduced the transformer and famous three rail track. In 1907, he introduced the first locomotive.
The rest is model train history.
Useless? Useful? I’ll leave that for you to decide.
2007-07-17 18:28:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
but wont you go google it lol
ok well what is the meaning of the star in the eipicenter of the geranium mars icicle galaxy in the far of distant solar plexus of caranium?
also....who was the first Tinky Winky tellytubby actor behind the suit?
2007-07-17 18:27:27 · answer #7 · answered by Weeza 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sarcoptic mange (technically is is called notoedric mange in cats), commonly know as scabies, is caused by an external parasite that burrows deep into the skin.
2007-07-17 18:26:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that Nature talks to you? But you have to learn to listen from with in your self. Animals talk also, they have medicine that is knowledge also. Learn to listen from with in and much knowledge willl come to you, and then you will find things even about yourself that you are not aware of.
2007-07-17 18:29:11 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you don't actually know it will you give me the best answer?
Ok, here you go:
The largest land snail ever found was 15 inches long and weighed 2 pounds!
2007-07-17 18:30:59 · answer #10 · answered by Just Me 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋