Coconuts are a fruit, not a nut. Sometimes they’re also called drupes, which are defined as fruits that have an inner flesh and seed surrounded by a hard shell.
100 Mind-Blowing Inner Facts
Hamburgers weren’t named after ham. If you’ve ever been a curious kid, you probably wondered where the ham was in hamburgers. Now, your inner child would be happy to know that hamburgers were named after the German city of Hamburg.
The quietest place on Earth is in Minnesota. Pretty much wherever you go in the world, there’s always going to be some sort of background noise, whether that’s the chirp of crickets or the slow, lazy whoosh of a gentle breeze. That’s the case everywhere except Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where something called an anechoic chamber lies. While the background noise in a tranquil bedroom measures somewhere around 30 decibels, Orfield Laboratories anechoic chamber recorded an average of -13 decibels – that’s so quiet that the inner workings of your body are audible.