Asklemmy

1454 readers

60 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

137 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

            
              Wombat feces are cube shaped.
Bananas are berries and strawberries are not.
Oxford university is older than the Aztec empire.
Humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tomatoes are also a fruit

To all those people who say they don't like fruit on their pizza.

Also pineapple on pizza is fantastic ... mi dispiace

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tomatoes are vegetables. If we're speaking botanically, then squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, corn kernels, and bean are also fruit. US supreme court ruled that they're vegetables. EU declared tomatoes to be fruit for the purpose of making jam, though.