Asides might not contain references and aren’t substantial enough to warrant a whole blog post. These are often things I remember that I have researched in the past and find interesting enough to document here.
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Different Grasses Grow In Different Seasons
There are two ways of categorizing grasses that I know of. Or at least, two ways that are important to me:
Growing season: Some grasses grow in cold seasons, others grow in warm seasons, which is why one clump of grass will be green in early May and another might still be brown.
Structure: Some grasses form clumps and send out runners to spread and create a new clump. Some grasses form sod, a dense mat of grass, roots, and last season's organic matter.
If you want an ornamental grass you can enjoy all year, pick a cold-weather grass that forms clumps. If you're closer to one of the Earth's poles, this will likely mean you'll get a native grass too.
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Gluten Is a Protein That Isn’t Present Until You Start Baking
Plain old wheat flour doesn't have gluten in it until you do something with it. Gluten is formed with two proteins, gliadin and glutenin, that bind during the cooking (or digestive) process.
Non-wheat flours can still produce gluten!
Its homologous seed storage proteins, in barley, are referred to as hordeins, in rye, secalins, and in oats, avenins. These protein classes are collectively referred to as "gluten". The storage proteins in other grains, such as maize (zeins) and rice (rice protein), are sometimes called gluten, but they do not cause harmful effects in people with celiac disease.
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Planets that Orbit a Black Hole are Called Blanets
Planets that orbit a black hole instead of a star are called blanets. No one has discovered a blanet yet, but they theoretically exist.
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Million Dollar Homepage
In the 2000’s a young business school student made $1,037,100 USD1 by selling ads on a website that only hosted ads. He sold the ads at $1 USD per pixel at a 10x10 pixel minimum. He auctioned off the last handful of pixels on eBay, tipping his income just over the one million dollar goal.
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Convection In The Forecast
Microclimates can cause the forecast to be inaccurate in very small areas. Where I live there is what looks like a small convective air current that causes slightly less precipitation than just a kilometre a way from us.
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Aluminium Wires
Insurance companies don’t like aluminum electrical wiring. It’s not technically the wires that are the problem, but the connectors used to join the wires. Because aluminum is soft, the wires come loose from common connectors and can cause a short-circuit.
If you have aluminum wiring in your house, you can mitigate the risk by replacing all of your connectors with the correct kind. Make sure the connectors are rated correctly for the two types of metal you are connecting. For example, copper-to-aluminum connectors are likely not safe for use with an aluminum-to-aluminum connection.
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Astroturf
People who have replaced their grass with astroturf have to vacuum their “lawn.”
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Agave Inulin is a FODMAP-friendly Fibre
Many fibre supplements contain fibres that are not compatible with FODMAP diets and cause symptoms to get worse rather than better for people with FODMAP sensitivities.
Agave Inulin is the one fibre supplement that does not have any FODMAPs.