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07-14-2003, 01:47 PM
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Schwan
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Originally posted by cheerios
isn't that fun?
so, here' the deal. Oranges don't wanna be eaten by bugs. so they've got stuff in their peels to keep em away. kinda a natural pesticide. it's an oil, and it's flammable, so when you squeeze a peel in half real fast next to a flame (a candle works fine, btw
), you see the oil burn.
Would I be wrong in suspecting that, at some point history, Oranges were assaulted by bugs wielding flame weapons? Evolution is so weird sometimes.
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