Stream of Facts
Phloem Bundles, the long thread-like structures along the length of a banana, distribute nutrients throughout this growing FRUIT.
FRUIT flies, while mating, often engage in quite a struggle; the females wishing to get it over with, while the males try to make the experience LAST.
Wes Craven’s 1972 film, “The LAST House on the Left”, was originally released with a pirated “R” rating seal when the MPAA wouldn’t PASS it.
Thermopylae PASS, the setting of Frank Miller’s “300”, got its name for the hot sulfur springs in the area, literally translated to “the HOT gates.”
Frank’s RedHot HOT sauce, contains cayenne pepper, an herb known for its many health benefits to the digestive and circulatory SYSTEMS.
PS3 SYSTEMS now only costs the Sony Corporation about $250 each to manufacture, an exception to the rule that game console makers tend to lose money on their HARDWARE.
HARDWARE Hawaii, a chain on the O`ahu and Kaua’i islands, began in 1954 with vacationers, Dana and Mary Lundquist, who decided not to return to MINNESOTA.
MINNESOTA contains over 90,000 miles of shoreline, which is more than Hawaii, California and Florida COMBINED.
When COMBINED with your morning coffee, the benefits of iron in breakfast cereals are weakened because the coffee’s polyphenols curb IRON absorption.
The IRON House, a house completely made of steel in Maputo, Mozambique, was originally intended to be the Governor’s house until it proved too hot to live in.
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