Really TRUE odd factoids

[markemark]

Flowers, cows.

Cheese isn’t made from cows.

I don't fully know the process of how cows make milk but they produce it, not really from what they eat. The do require organic material to eat to make enough energy to make the milk and I am sure the food they eat passes through their body so elements could find itself into the milk. But the milk itself was never really alive so it just depends on how you define it.

 

[Seevio]

Everything that we eat was once alive, apart from salt.

"Salt" is mentioned and not "salts". This implies that it refers specifically to table/sea salt, NaCl. There are, of course, many compounds classed as salts. KCl, for example, gives Finnish licorice its distinctive flavour.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I suppose there are just 3 categories: animal, vegetable or mineral. The first 2 are out, which only leaves minerals. I'm guessing salt is a mineral,but can't think of any other minerals that we eat

 

[Alex321]

I suppose there are just 3 categories: animal, vegetable or mineral. The first 2 are out, which only leaves minerals. I'm guessing salt is a mineral,but can't think of any other minerals that we eat

Vitamin tablets and iron tablets, but a lot of people never eat any of those.

 

[T4tomo]

Good lord - that's a cracker!

It sounds at first like there must be other similar substances ... but then you find you can't think of any!!!

OH! How about gravel to help digest tough food? Or is that just crows ...

Given we principally eat animals or vegetables, whilst it sounds like its a cracking fact, its just stating the obvious I think.

apparently some pregnant women crave and eat coal, allegedly

 

[Chris S]

Of the approximately 350 species of trees now growing in Britain, only 35 are truly native.

Serious question x 2
If they are growing here why are they not native ?
As a small island did not all our trees come from somewhere else ?

Presumably the original 35 were here before Britain became separated from the rest of Europe by the North Sea and English Channel.

 

[Dave7]

Presumably the original 35 were here before Britain became separated from the rest of Europe by the North Sea and English Channel.

Another (stupid?) question but how would anyone know that.
No humans were here then to record things.

 

[Alex321]

Another (stupid?) question but how would anyone know that.
No humans were here then to record things.

Fossil records plus seeds and suchlike.

 

[matticus]

Given we principally eat animals or vegetables, whilst it sounds like its a cracking fact, its just stating the obvious I think.

Aren't you just rewording the cracking fact? 🤷‍♂️

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Fossil records plus seeds and suchlike.

What does Keith Richards have to do with it?

 

[matticus]

Another (stupid?) question but how would anyone know that.
No humans were here then to record things.

Do you believe in dinosaurs Dave?

 

[Dave7]

Do you believe in dinosaurs Dave?

Not sure. They "discover" a few bones and build a imaginary monster then give it a name.

 

[matticus]

Not sure. They "discover" a few bones and build a imaginary monster then give it a name.

It keeps them off the streets!

 

[Punkawallah]

Another (stupid?) question but how would anyone know that.
No humans were here then to record things.

Humans were, indeed, there to witness it. Recording it would be something else. If they did, evidence of such has yet to be discovered.

 

[Punkawallah]

Bloomin' immigrants. coming over here, taking over our... um... forests.

To be fair, when they set off there weren’t trees in Britain - it just took them so long to get here that on arrival they found they had been gazumped. And of course, once the Doggerland inundation had cut Europe off, there was no going back.