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Also known as African horned cucumber, horned melon, spiked melon or jelly melon among other monikers, kiwano has spiked orange skin with lime green flesh that looks like jelly and tastes, some say, like a mix of banana and passionfruit or banana, cucumber and lime. |
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Feijoa is a South American fruit that’s also grown commercially in California and New Zealand. Its green peel is inedible, but the juicy fruit on the inside is white in color and similar to guava in texture, which is why it’s also sometimes called pineapple guava or guavasteen. Feijoa has a distinctive, perfume-like smell and a flavor that some have compared to a combination of apple, pineapple and mint. |
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Due to the reddish-brown, scaly appearance of its peel, salak is also known as snake fruit. When peeled, it reveals three white lobes of fruit that look and feel like garlic cloves but taste sweet and acidic. |
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Miracle fruit gets its name from the fact that it contains the miraculin glycoprotein which, when eaten, causes any sour foods — such as lemons, pickles or radishes — eaten right after it to taste sweet. The fruit goes by many names such as miracle berry and sweet berry, as well as, in its native West Africa, agbayun, asaa, ledidi and taami. The red berries themselves have a mild flavor that’s both sweet and tangy. |
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Sapodilla is actually a large berry that ranges in color from a pale yellow to a light, earthy brown and has a grainy texture to its skin, similar to kiwi, with anywhere from one to six hard, black seeds on the inside. Also called chikoo, naseberry, níspero and sapota among other names, sapodilla has a sweet and malty flavor like that of caramelized pear. |
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Grown primarily in Southeast Asia and southwest India, as well as Colombia, Florida and Puerto Rico, mangosteen has a sweet and tangy taste with a white fleshy and fibrous center inside an inedible, dark red or purple exterior. |
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A citrus fruit also native to South and Southeast Asia, pomelo is also grown in the U.S. and the Caribbean. While its peel is typically a pale green or yellow when ripe, the inside fruit is white, pale yellow, pink or red in color and tastes like a sweet, milder grapefruit. |
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Brazil’s national fruit is related to cacao, with an interesting smell that some of described as a mix of both chocolate and pineapple. Concealed inside a hard, brown exterior, cupuaçu’s white pulp tastes like a mix of banana, passion fruit, pear and melon. |
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Buddha’s hand, or fingered citron, gets its name from the finger-like sections of the fruit, which is green to yellow in color and, unlike other citrus fruits, typically does not have any pulp or juice. Originating in the Himalayan region and eaten throughout East and Southeast Asia, Buddha’s hand has a taste like that of a nonbitter lemon peel and a strong lemon blossom fragrance that makes it popular for zesting and flavoring. |
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The bulky, spiked appearance of durian has earned it the title “king of fruits,” and its potent, unpleasant stench has earned it quite the reputation as well. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/rwPBqz0t/i6rer.png Although the event was the annual Chevrolet Nationals, the star attraction was a re-creation of the Smokey and the Bandit jump by a Pontiac Trans-Am. Things went well as the car launched 30 feet into the air and soared 120 or so feet through the air. But driver Ray Kohn, making his first such jump, was unable to stick the landing, the car going nose-first into the pavement. The stunt was staged by the Northeast Ohio Dukes stunt team. A huge crowd that gathered to watch was appreciative of the effort, said organizers from Carlisle Events. |
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The Supreme Court Ruled that You Consent to a Blood Test by Driving on Roads |
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In the 1960s, scientists discovered that horseshoe crab blood could be used to detect even the smallest amounts of harmful bacteria. Since then, the pharmaceutical industry has been using it to make sure our injections, vaccines and surgical implants are all free from contamination. And so, every year along the U.S. East Coast, 500,000 crabs are collected, cleaned, measured and then drained of as much as one-third of their copper-based, baby-blue blood. Collections also take place across the eastern shores of Mexico and China. Demand for the blood is high—it’s been called blue gold and is reportedly worth up to $60,000 a gallon. |
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June 30, 1953: The first Corvette rolls off the assembly line |
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Every Fourth of July, sparkly fireworks illuminate the sky. But, haven’t you always wondered why it’s a tradition to set off explosions of light in the sky on Independence Day? It's certainly a day for celebration, but why fireworks? Why not just stick to barbeques and all things red, white, and blue? Well, you can thank famous historian John Adams for it. Before the Declaration of Independence was even signed, John Adams wrote in a letter to his wife that the occasion of America’s freedom “ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” And so, it was. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/dVz9XXnP/AADHIqj.jpg MEXICO CITY (AP) — A storm dumped more than 4 feet (more than a meter) of hail on parts of the Guadalajara area, damaging hundreds of homes and burying cars up to their windows in some places, Mexican officials said Monday. |
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Dodge Charger will have three new color names for 2020, “Frostbite”, “Hellraisin”, and “Sinamon Stick” |
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Senate Resolution 271 officially recognizes July 12, 2019 as “Collector Car Appreciation Day,” and a similar resolution has been introduced as House Res. 108 to recognize the 10th commemoration of “an annual event to celebrate and raise awareness of the vital role automotive restoration and collection plays in American society,” notes the SEMA Action Network. |
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Forty years ago today Sony introduced a portable cassette player that would forever change the way the world experienced music on-the-go. |
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