WRONG AGAIN
Everyone has seen peanuts, but how many realise that, scientifically speaking, they are not nuts, but beans. Not that a name makes any real difference.
. Rice paper, it is surprising to learn, is not made of rice, but from a pithy plant called “tung-tsau.” Panama hats are not made in Panama, but in Ecuador, and there is no bone in whalebone. It is really baleen, an elastic substance found in the mouth of the'whale.
There is no camel’s hair in a camel’s hair brush. It is made from the hair of squirrels. Also, the pine apple is neither an apple nor a pine, but botanically spe&king a berry.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 61, 10 April 1946, Page 6
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110WRONG AGAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 61, 10 April 1946, Page 6
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