Do you have a factual citation for this? The cubic watermelon I’ve had were fully ripe and completely delicious. In volume terms, the rind was thicker than would be typical for an unshaped watermelon, but the heartmeat was perfect. Especially the yellow watermelons, which are sweeter and less strongly flavored than red.
I suspect you’re confusing someone else’s opinions or your own opinions with fact, which happens distressingly often around here.
https://www.emaxhealth.com/11406/japanese-cube-and-heart-shaped-watermelons-are-they-edible
From what I can tell, it seems to be that because of the Japanese tradition of giving gifts of fruit, they are harvested when they are most aesthetically pleasing rather then when they will taste the best. I suppose there’s no other real reason they couldn’t wait and be harvested when ripe, except that’s not really the main point of producing them (to the Japanese, at least).
That Humpback Whales change their songs regularly, like hit tunes; and the changes nearly always move from west to east. Once a new song emerges, it goes right to the top of the Whale hit chart, and soon all the males are singing it … until it is replaced by the next “hit”.
No-one (other than the whales) really knows why.
What’s the connection???
Years ago I remember hearing that an SR-71 was fitted with a cannon as part of testing and it shot itself down because the aircraft flew too fast. Later I heard that the plane didn’t shoot itself but the rounds fired “locked” into the barrel instead. A quick google search doesn’t get me anything about an SR-71 ever shooting itself so I imagine that it’s probably this story about the F-11.
It took me a few moments looking at the pictures. The “sawbucks” in the photos all have an X shape, as in Roman numeral ten.
And a “double sawbuck” was a twenty dollar bill, so called because it had two sawbucks on it.
Holy crap! I bet a person could win quite a few bar bets with this piece of information.
The words “atheist” and “atheism” predate “theist” and “theism” by about 100 years.
I don’t see how that is possible seeing as inventing the word “atheist” means also inventing the word “theist”
Are you saying your local butcher has his own kill-room? Because if he’s buying meat from a slaughterhouse the odds are pretty good it is from several different carcasses.
the lucky ones do, the others buy whole halfs and quarters (if that makes grammatical sense) and hang and joint them on-site. In other cases they will send their own beasts for slaughter and receive them back for butchering.
Simon Whistler has a YouTube channel called Today I Found Out. Chock full of interesting little tidbits.
Pretty depressing from end to end for sure.
Language doesn’t work like that. The word “liaise” came after “liaison”, “lase” came after “laser”, and “surveil” came after “surveillance.”
I think you’re saying that the English words atheist and atheism predate theist and theism, but the original Greek “atheos” (pretend I put that in proper Greek letters) surely post-dated the Greek “theos”, right?
RS
I don’t know how weird it is but I recently found out that Bohemia was located where the Czech Republic is now and also the stereotype of being “bohemian” was around before the opera “La Boheme”
My grandmother on my father’s side was Bohemian.
90% of the things you read on the internet are false.
– Abraham Lincoln