Did you know that the real reason why carrots are orange is that they absorb electromagnetic radiation on particular wavelengths and reflect it at others?
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I'm sure there's a shiny sticker you can buy for $698.99 that will solve that issue.
They should be banned!
The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees. There is you will agree special about a firm, young carrot.
Practice skipping all clickbait headlines.
If I see one that really intrigues me, then I go out and Internet search for an answer instead of clicking.
"Science discovers that a type of repetitive leg movement that propels the body in a sustained motion over a flat surface can have positive health impacts if done for only twenty minutes every day."
Me to a group of people: "I'll do anything for money. No behavior is too low." wink wink They all laugh and never talk to me again.
Clickbait authors: "I'll do anything for clicks. No behavior is too low." wink wink The internet: clicking furiously
Its also good at getting your cart pulled
What really hit me that all this superfood shit was nonsense was when I watched a real nutritionist answer a question about "the best superfood" and they said "potatoes."
Tbf, potatoes are fucking dope
Yes, but no. Yes it's a "super food" in the sense that they are easy to grow and are nutritious and contain almost everything the body needs, but you'd have to eat like twenty kilos a day to survive on them solely.
Wait until you find out about the other "super" foods
Also, they can't fly and potato eyes do not emit lasers.
I'm OK with that. I don't need my potatoes demanding that I kneel before Zod.
Source? Do we know for certain? Maybe the potatoes are deceiving everyone, it has been confirmed that they are sentient.
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It's true, potatoes are one of the few singular plants that can provide almost all of a person's nutritional needs with barely any other supplement.
More protein per acre than soy.
A factoid brought to you by the National Potato Council, who told me this once and I've never bothered to fact check it.
Edit: It's a lie! What other lies have lobbing groups told me???
I am going to consider this a success story, given that you were transparent about the provenance of this factoid, and you corrected yourself. Yay for learning!
I hadn't ever thought to look it up over the last 10-12 years! Imagine that.
In fact it’s the most factoid it could be, an outright falsehood shared as a fact.
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iirc its more calories/acre than... well lliterally anything else. Not sure about any specific nutrient though.
Corn beats it out, and by some reckonings so does rice. Pumpkins too.
There are a few more exotic plants like tigernut and duckweed that are supposed to be really high, but not many people eat those as a staple crop. Palm oil and sugar cane are supposed to be super high too, though you probably don't want to be eating huge quantities of straight oil and sugar.
Finally there are a few tropical trees like jackfruit and breadfruit that produce enormous quantities of calories once mature. They have a huge advantage from their large leaf crowns and root systems (that they don't have to periodically regrow like annual plants) + the tropical weather allowing production for the entire year.
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Rather broccoli. Mulberry and flaxseed too. Who knew, our pre-agriculture ancestors ate the healtiest.
pre-agriculture ancestors ate the healtiest.
and lived to the ripe age of 42.
But not because of their food.
Most likely also because of their food. Diabetes, gluten intolerance, food allergies, vitamin deficiency from eating way too much of the one thing that grew and didn't die that harvest. Food related issues were all rampant, people just died of them.
Uhm, i'm talking pre-agriculture. Hunter-gatherer style, lots of seeds, some roots and vegetables, berries fruits, sometimes meat or fish.
Dying of hunger, so healthy.
/s
They live.
A plastic fannypack, so primitive!
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But even more likely is child mortality bringing down the averages.
You're not gonna believe why child mortality was so high.
Also, the (often) improper diets of pregnant ladies, especially among the poorer classes of society, that meant a lack of essential vitamins and minerals, put mothers too at great risk. To compound the issue, matters got out of hand during the periods when the annual Nile floods did not materialize. With the mother dead, the newborn faced an uphill task in surviving the odds. Feeding a motherless child was one of the greatest difficulties that the ancient Egyptians encountered. The milk of livestock – cows and goats – was the only substitute to natural mother’s milk. How many could afford it? This is where the aunts or other close family members of the baby stepped in to carry out this function and keep the baby well-fed.
Y'know, I had a feeling this was coming.
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where did u go wrong in life to allow CNN push notifications on your phone
Yeah, if your reaction to "website wants permission to push notifications to your device" isn't some mix between mirth and revulsion, I don't fundamentally understand you.
It's like people who actually watch commercials. If you don't skip/look away/mute/otherwise attempt to ignore commercials, there are massive differences between us. I even had an ex who thought targeted ads were a good thing, and he would voluntarily fill out the marketing questions that streaming services asked in lieu of commercial breaks. I just ... I can't imagine wanting that.
Why pay for the fucking service, only to be served ads? It's cable TV all over again. I hate it so much.
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