You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Verne_Frantz]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

I think by the time they changed the styling to this, the name should have changed to the Miami Beach. What were they thinking???


Verne

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by Verne_Frantz

I think by the time they changed the styling to this, the name should have changed to the Miami Beach. What were they thinking???


Verne

Funny you should mention that . . . Backstory:

http://www.deansgarage.com/2020/1971...iviera-a-body/

[Lee Stewart]

We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from the Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from the black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to the white flesh inside

[Lee Stewart]

If you think that you take sports seriously, consider that an estimated four million golfers in Japan make sure that they have hole-in-one insurance before they take a swing, and have been doing so since the first such policy was offered in 1982. Amateur players pay a premium of $65 a year for $3,500 in coverage. The extra cash comes in handy if a golfer nails the impressive feat and is then expected to celebrate by paying for food, drinks, and gifts, which can cost quite a bit.

[Lee Stewart]

Cucamelons (or "mouse melons") look like grape-sized watermelons but have a citrus flavor.

[Lee Stewart]

Despite being named after an Australian animal, the kangaroo mouse lives in the Nevada desert. And since it resides in such a dry area, it's learned to adapt by getting all of the hydration it needs via the seeds it eats. This means that the kangaroo mouse never drinks water.

[Lee Stewart]

Greenland sharks, which are also known as gurry sharks or grey sharks, tend to live long lives. As the longest-living vertebrate on the planet, they can swim around the ocean for up to 400 years and don't reach sexual maturity until they're 150.

[Lee Stewart]

While it might look like clams have a big tongue that sometimes protrudes from their shell to poke around the ocean floor, what you're actually seeing is a foot. The appendage, relatively long in comparison to the overall size of the creature, is used to dig in the sand.
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[Lee Stewart]

If all of the water on Earth fell as rain at once, the entire planet would get 1 inch of precipitation.

[Lee Stewart]

Minnesota has more shoreline than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined.