JUST IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW YET

Did you know that...

1. French fries did not originate in France but probably in Belgium?

2. Indian ink did not originate from India but from China and Japan?

3. Bermuda grass is a native to southern Europe and not to Bermuda, an island group self-governing dependency of the United Kingdom in the North Athlentic Ocean east of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, USA?

4. The yellow river in China is in fact yellow in color because of the enormous amount of silt in it?

5. That spiders are not insects but arachnids, which are usually carnivorous and terrestrial?

6. An alligator pear is not an animal but a fruit commonly known as avocado?

7. Blackberries are actually small purple fruits and not black in color?

8. Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits and not vegetables?

9. The so-called black box or the flight data recorder of an airplane is orange in color?

10. Butterflies taste with their feet?

11. Elephants cannot gallop or jump over ditches, but they readily take to rivers and lakes where the water supports them and enables them to swim for long distances without tiring?

12. Chickenpox is an extremely contagious disease caused by varicella-zoster virus and not by chicken?

13. A Portuguese man-of-war is not a soldier or warrior from Portugal but a sea organism resembling jellyfish that lives in warm waters and has a transparent gas-filled float, and long stinging often poisonous tentacles?

14. The word hamburger indeed traces its roots from Hamburg, Germany where the people there used to eat similar food called Hamburg steak.

15. The Milk of Magnesia is not a milk or a dairy product but a trademark for a mixture of magnesium hydroxide an water, which is used as a laxative and antacid?

16. Fireflies belong to species of beetles and not of flies?

17. The bamboo tree is not a tree but belongs to the grass family?

18. A guinea pig is not a pig but a rodent and it is not named after Guinea in Africa or Papua New Guinea in Asia but a native to South America?

19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out?

20. It is impossible to lick one's elbow? Try it!