" ¢ Just how cool are cuke ? Their intimate temperature can be up to 20 degrees coolheaded than the international melodic phrase , hence the title phrase . They also have a higher part of pee than watermelons , so they make for a very tonic summer snack !
" ¢Â On that banknote , take a recommendation from theTolstoy house , who would core out out Cucumis sativus and fill them with milk to booze on picnics . You may not , however , be as tempted bycucumber - flavored Pepsi , found in Japan .
" ¢Â Cucumber love has spanned much of human existence . papist Emperor Tiberius recrudesce an insatiate appetite for cucumbers , and had retainer wheel the planted cucumbers around so they would never be without Dominicus . " During the insensate month , they covered the Cucumis sativus bed with sheet of paper of mica , a transparent Harlan F. Stone ( sheet ice had not yet been invented ) . The name give to this sort of neo - greenhouse isspecularium . "
" ¢Â Some cucumber lovers can go overboard . In tenth hundred Burma , King Theinhko eat a James Leonard Farmer ’s cucumbers without permission . The sodbuster killed the king and read the throne , becoming known as the " Cucumber King . "
" ¢Â Cucumbers have not escaped discrimination for their misshapen appearance . However , last year the EUoverturned a banon misshapen ( register : worthless ) vegetables . In fact , some cucumber can be quitelovely .
" ¢Â Do not call up you may trifle with this strange yield , peculiarly a ocean - fairing variety ( Sea Cucumberis not a fruit , but rather , an echinoderm like starfish and sea urchins ) . When threaten , some sea cucumbers fire sticky threads to ensnare their foeman . Others can mutilate their own eubstance as a defense force mechanism . They violently contract their muscle and jettison some of their internal organs out of their anus . The missing body parts are cursorily regenerated .
" ¢ In fact , ocean cucumber have inspiredtreatmentfor Parkinson ’s , stroke and spinal cord injury .
" ¢Â mind thesquirting cucumberas well as ( scientific discipline … gone mad ! ) theskinless cucumber .
" ¢Â Ca n’t get enough ? ascertain out the Russia’scucumber festival .
" ¢Â How do you Flossers consume your cucumber vine ? I get laid them because they allow the existence ofWickles . They have also been know to assistrock bands …
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