For decades, on tire pressure guages, I didn’t know that the little knob on the head opposite the fitting that goes on the valve stem is for bleeding air out of the tire. I thought it was just a nub left over from manufacturing.
Foil in a box? What a decadent country you live in! [wry smiley] My Tesco-branded (store brand) foil was just the foil roll in a thin plastic overwrap. I was honesty shocked that I didn’t need that serrated edge on the box to cut it. I’m honestly relieved because I usually cut my finger on that serrated edge.
Um, no. Epiphytes are part of the pineapple family, but pineapple plants are not epiphytes. They require soil. You may have seen a pineapple palm which is a palm tree, not a pineapple plant.
Sorry, I tried to edit, but I got confused on my nomenclature there. Pineapples are bromeliads. They are not air plants, and cannot grow on trees with no soil.
The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. Actually, the drupe develops first on the tree, and then the peduncle expands into the pseudofruit. Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. Although a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the fruit of the cashew is a seed. The seed is surrounded by a double shell containing a dermatogenic phenolic resin, urushiol, a potent skin irritant toxin also found in the related poison ivy.
Many thanks for this thread. I don’t often find myself in circumstances where I feel knowledgeable. But now I’m all puffed up and swaggering around on account of my occult toaster knowledge.
Crumbs in the toaster? No problem at all! Lemme just pop the hood and take a look…
This morning I started the 2005 Prius I bought from my former roommate last year, and turned the defrosters on while I scraped ice off of the glass. About the time I was finished I noticed ‘steam’ coming from around the driver’s side-view mirror. Apparently I have heated mirrors.
For years and years, I suffered trying to open vacuum-sealed jars. Twisting with all my might, banging with the back edge of a knife, holding under hot water, wasting money on every gadget that promised to open lids.
Then one day I was struggling with a jar, and there happened to be a screwdriver lying nearby. I picked up the screwdriver, stuck it under the edge of the jar, gave a little twist . . . and voila, a little hissing sound as the vacuum broke, and the lid immediately loosened. Now, whenever I have a tight lid, I just break the vacuum with a screwdriver. Sometimes you have to try a few locations around the rim, but it always works.