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Strawberries and wild strawberries are not berries, but nuts. More precisely, not the fruits themselves but the seeds, and the pulp is the receptacle. Potatoes are bi-locular berries. A pear is an apple. Cherries, plums, apricots, peaches are all drupes. They are divided into one-seeded (e.g., cherry, plum, peach, coconut) and many-seeded (e.g., raspberry, blackberry, cloudberry). Bananas are berries. Pineapple is a grass. Watermelon is a berry (a type of pumpkin). Almonds are not nuts, but a dry fruit. Apple seeds, and the pits of cherries, apricots, peaches, or plums contain cyanides (amygdalin converts in them). Just like in almonds. Chocolate contains theobromine – a couple of bars might be lethal for a dog or close to it, half a bar will definitely knock it down. Vanilla is made from a Mexican orchid vine, while vanillin, an artificial vanilla substitute, is a byproduct of the pulp and paper industry.
There is no such animal as a panther. In popular usage, “panthers” are black jaguars or leopards. Black panthers also have spots, they’re just less visible. Polar bears have black skin and transparent fur. And they are white for the same reason clouds are white. Woodpeckers have tongues four times the length of their beaks, wrapped around their skulls that can stretch out. The tongue of the European green woodpecker goes down into the throat, stretches across the back of the neck, around the back of the skull under the skin, across the crown between the eyes, and usually ends right under the eye socket. In some woodpeckers, the tongue exits the skull between the eyes and enters the beak through one of the nostrils.
Anteaters have their tongues attached to their sternums, between the clavicles. Elephants are the only animals with four fully-developed knee joints. Koalas have fingerprints that are almost indistinguishable from human ones. Sharks have no bones and their closest relatives are rays. Crocodiles can go without eating for a whole year (but they feel blue). Zebras are black with white stripes, not the other way round (white appears on black skin). 1% of people have cervical ribs. Squids, cuttlefish, and octopuses can edit their RNA “on the fly”.
As it turns out, René Descartes invented the Cartesian coordinate system for Russia and for the rest of the world. Since Descartes’s name is Descartes, i.e., Des Cartes, it corresponds to Cartesian.
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