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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Fun fact: cucumbers and watermelons are actually part of the same family: the cucurbitaceae.
Watermelons are vegetables...
...tomatoes are fruit....
Vegetables don't exist. It's a culinary word which does not exist in botany. It describes an enormous umbrella of fruits, roots, leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds.
Exactly. Botanically cucumbers are berries, just like bananas which makes much more sense.
Fruit don't exist. It is a botanical word describing seed bearing structures of flowering plants.
What ? I've study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.
A fruit is the heterozygotic offspring of the parent plant. A seed is the male zygote, with the female zygote being pollen. So "seed" oils are made from fruit, just like olive oil.
A tuber (potato) or rhyzome (ginger) is a homozygotic offspring. A vegetable is a part of the plant that is not the offspring, like the leaves, stem or root.
...Yes?
you should probably read my comment again
Your mom is a peach
No. Technically, both watermelons and cucumbers are berries.
and all berries are fruit.
I will do you one better. Why gamora?
gawhat now?
Its a reference from avengers movie.
Makes sense. The watermelon is like a playdoh ball then you just flatten it to a snake to get the cucumber
That was actually God's process when he created them 6000 years ago.