RANDOM FACTS: What makes a fruit, a fruit?

Episode Transcript

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Well, that's kind of random.Mel time for random facts with Mel Taylor.
About the only number one song thathas the same word repeated more than
three times in the title is Shake, Shake, Shake, Shake Your Body
by Casey in the Sunshine Band.Beer is made by actually converting the starch
in a grain to sugar and thenfermenting it into making alcohol. So that

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means that sake is technically a beerbecause that's exactly how it's made with rice.
Ripley is believed to or not inGuinness World Records have the same owner.
It's Canadian company called the Jim PattisonGroup. How About the term fruit
is recognized botanically as anything that containsa seed or seeds, but there's no
botanical definition for a vegetable. We'vejust come to use a vegetable as a

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broad umbrella term for many types ofedible plants or parts of those plants,
including roots and stems and leaves andbroccoli, artichoke, you know, things
like that. How About this isa weird one, but whale have got
teeth on their eyeballs, And thereare some spiders that keep tiny frogs as

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pets to stop pest that try toeat the spiders eggs. How big are
these spiders is my question.