Fascinating Friday! – Foods Before and After Genetic Modification 😱🍉

Hello, everyone! 🙂

Today is a special Friday because I am posting a NEW ‘Fascinating Friday’ post!! How long has it been? WAY too long. BUT, at least you are finally reading a new one, and I am very excited to share this one with you!

Most people have no idea what their everyday fruits and vegetables originally looked like before they were genetically modified. Perhaps you are wondering, what exactly is genetic modification?

Genetically Modified – (of an organism or crop) containing genetic material that has been artificially altered so as to produce a desired characteristic.

Sounds kind of creepy if you ask me. lol Anyway, we’re going to take a look at some before and after pictures of some of the popular foods you enjoy. Let’s do this!

 

Wild Watermelon

Modern Watermelon

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Wild Banana

Modern Banana

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Wild Eggplant

Modern Eggplant

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Wild Carrot

Modern Carrot

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Wild Corn

Modern Corn

 

And there are just a few examples of the way our food has been genetically modified! Pretty insane, eh? It’s hard to believe these well-known foods used to look that different!

Well, I really hoped that you enjoyed today’s ‘Fascinating Friday!’ It is quite a bit shorter than my other ones but still thought that you would find it to be interesting. Let me know what you thought of today’s post, and if you have anything fascinating you want to see featured in a future issue! 🙂

To learn more about Genetically Modified foods, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – 12 Amazingly Fascinating Things You’ve Never Seen Before! 😮

Hello, All! 😃

Thanks for joining me today for this week’s ‘Fascinating Friday!’ Today’s post is a really random post, but I think all of the things you are about to see are pretty fascinating! Hope you find this post exciting, let me know what you thought in the comments below! Sorry for this post being published so late, but I worked all day, so I didn’t get to finalizing it until tonight.

Ok, here are 12 Amazingly Fascinating Things You’ve Never Seen Before!

 

#1 – A parking tower at the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg

#2 – Two trees that share a single branch

#3 – This amazing looking Path-Laying Machine. Yep, it’s a real thing!

#4 – The world’s deepest pool, which holds 600,000 gallons of water and is a mind blowing 113 ft deep.

#5 – These are horizontally stacked bricks. This is a building taken to another level.

#6 – Grass after it has been struck by lightning.

#7 – The chair that Abraham Lincoln was shot in

#8 – Velcro under a microscope

#9 – An entire amusement park crushed into a four-meter cube

#10 – World’s largest underground trampoline

#11 – Roots that have found a way to adapt

#12 – A two-headed milk snake

 

There are 12 Fascinating Things that I’m sure you’ve never seen before! I hope you found this post to be fun and entertaining! I had a ton of fun preparing it for you, and if you liked this post, let me know if you want another one like it! Thanks again for reading!! 🙂

If you have a minute, feel free to drop a comment below! I would love to hear from you! 💬😃

 

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – 15 Shocking Food Facts You Need To Know! 🍉🍞😱

Hello, all! 😃

Thanks so much for joining me for this week’s issue of ‘Fascinating Friday!’ I am really excited about today’s post, and hope that you really enjoy these incredible food facts! I had a lot of fun creating Fascinating Facts about Mcdonald’s, and thought I would do another issue about food!

Well, I won’t keep you waiting…Let’s learn some new and awesome facts!! 🚀

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There you go! 15 amazing and shocking food facts! This is only my second post on facts, let me know what you thought and if you want to see more posts involving facts like these! I had a ton of fun making this post, and hope you enjoyed reading!

If you have the time, please drop a comment below, I would love to hear from you! 🙂 💬

 

 

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – 10 Incredible Guinness World Animal Records You Need to Know! 😮

Happy Friday, everyone! 😀

I hope all of you are enjoying your day! Thanks for joining me to learn 10 Amazing Guinness World Animal Records that YOU need to know! Last week we looked at Guinness World Food Records, and Y’All seemed to really enjoy them and wanted to see some more amazing records! If you thought last week’s issue was unbelievable, you haven’t seen anything yet.

I hope you enjoy reading today’s post! Let’s go! 🚀

 

#1 – Longest Tail on a Dog

The longest tail on a dog measures 76.8 cm (30.2 in), achieved by Keon who is owned by Ilse Loodts (both Belgium), in Westerlo, Belgium, on 18 August 2015.

Keon is an Irish wolfhound.

 

#2 – Longest Ears on a Dog – Ever

The longest ears on a dog measured 34.9 cm (13.75 in) and 34.2 cm (13.5 in) for the right and left ears, respectively, on 29 September 2004. They belong to Tigger, a bloodhound, who is owned by Bryan and Christina Flessner of St Joseph, Illinois, USA.

Tigger has won many show titles and over 180 Best of Breed awards. He was inducted into the Bloodhound ‘Hall of Fame’ in 2003.

Unfortunately, Tigger passed away in October 2009.

 

#3 – Highest Bar Jump Cleared by a Llama

The highest bar jump cleared by a lama is 1.13 m (3 ft 8.5 in), and was achieved by Caspa, owned by Sue Williams (UK) at Dogfest, in Arley Hall, Cheshire, UK, on 14 June 2015.

 

#4 – Most basketballs Slam-dunked By a Parrot In a Minute

Julie and Ed Cardoza are parrot trainers and owners of Zac, a 25-year-old parrot who holds a spot in Guinness World Records 2013 for the most basketballs slam-dunked by a parrot in a minute, 22.

 

#5 – Longest Fur On a Rabbit

The longest fur on a rabbit is 36.5 cm (14.37 in) and belongs to Franchesca, owned by Betty Chu (USA), as measured in Morgan Hill, California, USA, on 17 August 2014.

 

#6 – Longest Snake – Ever (Captivity)

The longest snake – ever (captivity) is Medusa, a reticulated python (python reticulatus), and is owned by Full Moon Productions Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. When measured on 12 October 2011, she was found to be 7.67 m (25 ft 2 in) long. Medusa also holds the current ‘Longest Snake – Living (captivity)’ title.

 

#7 – Tallest Dog Living – Male

The tallest dog living is ‘Freddy’, owned by Claire Stoneman (UK), who was 1.035 m (3 ft 4.75 in) tall when measured in Leigh-on-Sea, UK, on 13 September 2016.

 

#8 – Most Canned Drinks Opened By a Parrot in One Minute

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGuinnessWorldRecordsKids%2Fvideos%2F1767626769967251%2F&show_text=0&width=476 The most canned drinks opened by a parrot in one minute is 35 and was achieved by Zac the Macaw in San Jose, California, USA, on 12 January 2012.

 

#9 – Most Balls Caught By a Dog With the Paws in One Minute

The most balls caught by a dog with the paws in one minute is 14 and was achieved by Purin and her owner Makoto Kumagai (both Japan) in Sakura, Chiba, Japan, on 22 March 2015.

 

#10 – Longest Tongue On a Dog (current)

The longest tongue on a dog measures 18.58 cm (7.31 in) and belongs to Mochi, a female St. Bernard owned by Carla and Craig Rickert (both USA) and was measured in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, on 25 August 2016.

 

What did you think? Pretty insane, eh? There are some incredible animals out there! I hope you liked this week’s issue as much as last week’s! Let me know what you want to see next on ‘ Fascinating Friday!’ Thanks so much for taking the time to read.

If you have a minute, drop a comment below! I would love to hear from you! 💬 🙂

 

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – Shocking Guinness World Food Records That Will Blow Your Mind! 😮

Hey, everyone! 😃

Thanks for joining me today for the 12th ‘Fascinating Friday!’ Today’s post is really crazy! It’s going to feature Guinness Food Records! Some are really hard to believe are true, you will be amazed! This is my first ‘Fascinating Friday’ with world records! Let me know what you think, and if you want more! Let me know what topic as well. 🙂

Anyway, here are 7 Guinness World Food Records! 🚀

 

#1 – Most Big Macs Consumed

The most Big Macs consumed was achieved by Donald Gorske (USA), who ate his 28,788th Big Mac in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA, on 24 August 2016.

 

#2 – The Largest Bubblegum Bubble Blown

Chad Fell (USA) blew a bubblegum bubble with a diameter of 50.8 cm (20 in) without using his hands at the Double Springs High School, Winston County, Alabama, USA on 24 April 2004.

 

#3 – Largest Scoop of Ice Cream

The largest scoop of ice-cream weighed 1365kg 312.93g (3,010 lb) and was created by Kemps LLC (USA), in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, USA on 28 June 2014.

 

#4 – The World’s Largest Pizza

The largest pizza has a total surface area of 1,261.65 m² (13,580.28 ft²) and was prepared by Dovilio Nardi, Andrea Mannocchi, Marco Nardi, Matteo Nardi and Matteo Giannotte (all Italy) from NIPfood at Fiera Roma, in Rome, Italy, on 13 December 2012. The pizza was 100% gluten-free.

 

#5 World’s Longest Noodle

The longest noodle measures 3,084 m (10,119 ft 1.92 in) and was achieved by Xiangnian Food Co., Ltd. in Nanyang, Henan, China, on 28 October 2017. THAT IS OVER 3 KM!! The attempt took place in Nanyang, Henan with staff spending 17 hours rolling out the enormous noodle.

 

#6 – Heaviest Green Cabbage

The heaviest cabbage weighed 62.71 kg (138.25 lb) and was presented at the Alaska State Fair by Scott A. Robb (USA) in Palmer, Alaska, USA, on 31 August 2012. Scott A. Robb has previously held a number of Guinness World Records for heaviest vegetables, including the ‘Heaviest turnip’, among others.

 

#7 – Most Hamburgers Eaten in 3 Minutes!

The most hamburgers eaten in 3 minutes is 12 and was achieved by Takeru Kobayashi (Japan) on the set of ‘Lo Show dei Record’ in Milan, Italy, on 11 July 2014.

 

Yikes! Some of those are insane! Which one do you think you could do? I’d love to be able to blow the world’s largest bubblegum bubble! Something I wouldn’t try is eating 12 hamburgers in 3 minutes! I would get SO sick! Anyway, I hope you really enjoyed today’s post and found it to be interesting! I had a lot of fun preparing it for you! Let me know if you want to see more world records in upcoming ‘Fascinating Fridays!’

Thanks for reading, and if you have the time, drop a comment below! I would love to hear from you! 💬 🙂

 

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – Crazy New Flavours From Your Favourite Food Brands Available In 2018!

Hello, everyone! 😀

I hope you are having an awesome Friday! I am really excited to share with you today’s post, featuring crazy new flavours from your favourite food brands available in 2018! This is a different type of post than previous ones on ‘Fascinating Friday,’ but think it is good to have variety! Speaking of variety, get ready for some whole new flavours to pick from the next time you visit the grocery store!

U ready? Let’s go! 🚀

 

#1 – Sweet Heat Starburst

The new Starburst Sweet Heat really pack the spice in each of the four flavours; Fiery Watermelon, Flamin’ Orange, Strawberry Mango, and Pipin’ Pineapple.

 

#2 – Sour Patch Kids Fire

 

In case regular Sour Patch Kids weren’t tongue-twisting enough, you can get the Fire flavour that adds some heat to the candy before turning sweet!

 

#3 – Go-Gurt Sour Patch Kids

 

Pucker up! These Go-Gurt Sour Patch Kid tubes come in blue raspberry and redberry. The sweet-and-sour taste brings a whole new excitement to snack time.

 

#4 – New Diet Coke Flavors

Calling all Diet Coke lovers! There are four new millennial-oriented flavours hitting shelves in 2018: twisted mango, zesty blood orange, feisty cherry, and ginger lime. The new additions, along with classic Diet Coke, will come in new slim cans.

 

#5 – Spicy Guacamole Pringles

This is no ordinary avocado. Spice up your next fiesta with the fiesty flavour sensation of Pringles Spicy Guacamole

 

#6 – Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes

 

This cereal combo is gonna be grrrrrreat! Even though there’s no sign of Tony the Tiger — “frosted flakes” isn’t trademarked by General Mills — we still know this cereal will make mornings even more magically delicious.

 

#7 – Marshmallows Peeps Oreos, Chocolate Hazelnut Oreos, Firework Oreos, and Hot and Spicy Cinnamon Oreos

Hot and Spicy Cinnamon Oreos were available January 1st. Seasonal favourites like Marshmallows Peeps Oreos, Chocolate Hazelnut Oreos and Firework Oreos are also hitting the shelves this year.

#8 – Screamin’ Dill Pickle Pringles

Pop open a can of Pringles Screamin’ Dill Pickle and make snack time more fun with the extreme pickle flavour and satisfying crunch of the original stackable potato crisps.

#9 – Doritos Blaze

 

Doritos Blaze hit shelves in early 2018 and joined the two other staple flavours, Nacho Cheese and Cool Ranch. More sweet and spicy than extra hot, these Doritos have an exciting hot-sauce kick to them.

 

#10 – Piña Colada, Cherry Cola, and Kettle Corn OREOS

The Piña Colada Oreo Thins are a vanilla cookie containing a pineapple-coconut filling. It’s as if you were transported to the tropics for just a split-second.

The next cookie, Cherry Cola, is an original chocolate Oreo cookie stuffed with a side-by-side filling of a red-and-wine cherry and cola flavoured creme complete with popping candy to act as the soda carbonation.

The final cookie, Kettle Corn, is a vanilla sandwich cookie filled with a creme filling dotted with puffed millet pieces to mimic popcorn.

The three Oreo flavours will be released in May 2018 and customers will be asked to vote for their favourites.

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I hope you really enjoyed today’s ‘Fascinating Friday!’ There are some really wacky new flavours coming out! Some of them I wouldn’t want to try, but some look really good! THE SAD NEWS: I live in Canada. I can’t try like any of these products. I’m going to make a post or two on why the US is far better than Canada. The US is awesome, I really wish I lived there. Not to say there aren’t things I like about Canada, but the US has far more to offer.

 

 

 

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – Incredible Little Creatures You Have No Idea Exist!

Hey, everyone!

Thank you for joining me for the 10^th Fascinating Friday! I hope all of you are having a great day and can’t wait to show you some incredible creatures you have no idea exist! I can’t believe this is my 10^th issue of Fascinating Friday!’ These are going so well, and I am having a lot of fun! I hope you are as well. 😊

Are you ready to see some stunning little creatures? Get ready to be amazed! 🚀

 

The Striated Frogfish – This small fish, just about 8 – 9 inches long, has the capacity to change coloration and pigment pattern. The first dorsal spine of the frogfish tips forward and is used as a fishing rod. Its tip has a characteristic worm-like lure which, when waved, attracts unsuspecting prey.

 

The Red-Lipped Batfish – This unreal-looking little fish species can be found around the Galapagos Islands at depths of 100 feet or more. Batfish are not good swimmers; they use their highly-adapted pectoral fins to “walk” on the ocean floor. It eats shrimps, small fish, crabs, etc.

 

The Mantis Shrimp – Mantis shrimps have powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning or dismemberment. When kept in captivity, some larger species are capable of breaking through aquarium glass with a single strike. 😱

 

Boxer Crab – These little crabs from the family Xanthidae are notable for their mutualism with sea anemones, which they hold in their claws for defence. In return, the anemones get carried around which enables them to capture more food particles.

 

Blue Dragon – Commonly known as the sea swallow, blue dragon or blue angel; the Glaucus atlanticus, is actually a type of small-sized blue sea slug. These slugs feed on other pelagic creatures and reach lengths of up to 1.2 inches.

 

What did you think of these amazing creatures? I had NO idea they even existed! I hope that you enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed making it for you! Thank you for reading, and have a great weekend! 😃

If you have the time, I would love to hear from you!

 

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – Stunning 15-Acre Estate with 30 bedrooms in Manalapan, Florida for $138,000,000!

Hey, everyone! 😃

I am SUPER excited about today’s post! We are learning about an incredible estate for sale in Florida that is priced at $138,000,000! It is an amazing Ocean-to-Lake Estate in Manalapan! If you can’t decide whether you want to live on the lake or the ocean, this place is for you! If you have the money, of course. 😉

First, take a look at the video below to get a quick tour of the home and property!

The home was priced quite a bit higher but has been lowered various times. Lake Worth is on one side of the property, and the Atlantic Ocean is on the other side.

Take a look at some of these features this home has to offer…

12-bedroom main residence

4 bedroom beach cottage

2nd 4 bedroom beach cottage

3 level mango house

Swimming pool 

Freshwater Pond

Regulation Tennis Court

Half Basketball Court

PGA-Standard Golf Area

Fitness Center and Spa

Lake Worth is on one side of the property and the Atlantic Ocean on the other!

What did you think? We didn’t get to see inside either of the cottages or the three-level Mango house, but what we did view I thought was amazing! Imagine having your own golf course! Or having 30 bedrooms, a series of formal and informal living and dining areas, a media room, libraries, offices, numerous terraces, an expansive wine cellar and two elevators!! The centrepiece main residence offers 62,200± square feet with both ocean and lake views. It would be a truly amazing place to live!

For more information on the listing, visit www.geminipalmbeach.com

 

 

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – Photos of Australia’s Creatures That Will Leave You In Awe!

Hey Everyone! 😃

Welcome to the 8^th Fascinating Friday! I hope Y’All are having an awesome day! I am very excited for today’s post which is about some of the animals in Australia. This country is truly incredible and has some awesome and scary creatures! Viewing some of these amazing photos will show you a few of the reasons why. Are you ready?

Here we go! 🚀

 

This is a picture of a jellyfish that crashed on the rocky shore and died. Think of how scary it would be to be swimming around with that thing in the water!

Enormous, human-friendly Australian insects! 😱

Terrifying giant crab exploring garbage can! 😱 🦀

Crocodile with Shark in its mouth! 🐊 🦈 😯

Giant lizard on the exterior of a house! 🦎

Man retrieving a sheep on his scooter! 😯 😂

The snakes in Australia are absolutely INSANE!! 🐍

Who wouldn’t want to take home a prize crocodile in the back of their truck? 🐊

Meet the reef stonefish. It lives on reef bottoms camouflaged as a rock and is the most venomous known fish in the world. It can be lethal to humans. 😱

Then there’s the blue-ringed octopus. While it may look cool, it is known to hide out in the Australian tide pools and is also responsible for over 20 recorded deaths. On top of that, there is no known anti-venom for the powerful poison it possesses. Death can occur within two hours of getting stung.

Passengers, onboard a flight from Australia to Papua New Guinea were incredibly shocked to look out their cabin windows and see a 3-meter snake handing off the wing of the plane. ✈️

GIANT EARTHWORM!! 😯

This is the teeny-tiny jellyfish known as the Irukandji jellyfish. Their venom is 100 times as potent as a cobra and 1,000 times as potent as a tarantula. Yeah, not good whatsoever.

Check out this tube-building polychaete worm known as the Christmas Tree Worm that lives in tropical reefs and comes in a variety of bright colours!

 

WOW! I found some of that kind of terrifying! Australia has some cool, but also CREEPY creatures! Could you imagine coming home to having a lizard that big on your house? Or having a giant crab going through your trash cans? How about seeing one of those enormous worms or accidentally stepping on a blue-ringed octopus? Aah!! FREEKY. Even still, Australia is really cool, and I think it would be really fun to visit!

Thanks so much for reading, and if you found this post interesting, please comment below! 😃

 

 

 

Fascinating Friday! – Secret Mountaintop Villa On Top of Beijing Penthouse 😯

Hello all! 😃

Thanks for joining me for the 7th ‘Fascinating Friday!’ I am very excited for today’s post and really hope that you find it interesting! Today we are learning about a doctor who spent six years and $130,000 transforming his penthouse apartment into a mountain retreat only to be told to tear it down by officials who said the work was done without permission. 🙁

We’ll dig a little deeper into this story, view some awesome pictures, and take a drone tour right to the top of the penthouse! Are you ready? Here we go! 🚀

First off, take a look at the video below! It gives a brief overview of the story and takes you on a tour to the top of the penthouse!

 

Zhang Biqing, who founded a chain of Chinese medicine clinics, bought the 26th-floor dwelling and then moved rocks, wooden panels and shrubbery to the roof using a service elevator. Inside it featured a gym, open-air swimming pool, and several dining and guest rooms.

He told the newspaper he spent $130,000 on the work, which he said was to make the rooftop pipework look prettier. He said the project began with a small number of plants and some bamboo, but that he was forced to add wooden structures to stop his additions from blowing away. Much of the rock-like edifice is actually painted materials. The project even had a vineyard!

The mountaintop home also had walkways and a wooden trellis for climbing plants for the owner to enjoy. Some neighbours said water and drainage pipes had broken because of the enormous rocky structure above them and their apartments had regularly been flooded.

Neighbours feared the two-story structure had damaged the building’s internal pipework and foundations and said they have long complained about noise and disruption from construction. Unless Zhang could secure permission by proving the structure was not unsafe, it would have to be torn down within 15 days.

The villa was taken down more than four months after Beijing Haidian district’s chengguan, or urban management authorities ruled that it was an illegal building and ordered Zhang Biqing to dismantle it within 15 days.

It’s kind of too bad that he couldn’t keep his awesome mountaintop villa, but it had to be taken down due to structural issues it was causing, never mind that it was made illegally!

Even though this place has been dismantled, I thought it would make a really cool post! I hope that you found it as fascinating as I did! 😃

 

BONUS! – FUN FACT!💡 Illegal rooftop buildings have been found in other cities in China after Zhang’s villa was exposed. Twelve illegal rooftop buildings ranging from 180 to 240 sq m were reported in Guiyang, capital of Guangzhou province. The owners reached agreement with local authorities to dismantle them.