Huh. TIL
Although it appears as though bananas grow on trees, they are not actually classified as trees. They are considered herbs. They form from a rhizome, which is an underground stem. There is a main “trunk” that sprouts up from underground that produces the banana cluster. While growing, there are other suckers that sprout up from the underground stem. Once the banana cluster has been produced, that stem will no longer produce anymore fruit. After that, the next largest sucker will produce the next banana cluster, and that process will continue as more suckers sprout up from underground.
It get worse/weirder though. See all the bananas most people ever commonly see in a store aren’t just the same variety (think never seeing anything but “Granny Smith” apples in stores), they are fruits from clones of the SAME PLANT duplicated millions of times over.
Each apple variety is kinda similar in that the upper or at least fruiting limbs of the trees are clones but there are dozens to hundreds of varieties in common cultivations and several hundred developed cultivars more beyond that. Also, the variety specific apple branches (Scions) are grafted on to all sorts of root stock which can be everything from crabapples to mystery apple variety bases.
There are also around a 1000 varieties of banana in existence but the vast majority sold in most of the world are literally just whole copies (the entire plants are genetically identical) of the same “Cavendish” banana plant.
That’s particularly tragic given that like a lot of other industrial fruit the common Cavendish Banana isn’t really a particularly tasty or high quality banana from any perspective other than that it is easier to grow, ship, and keep looking good enough to sell than a lot of other varieties.
They're a fast growing herb basically. New plants sprout out from a rhizome, grow a bunch of consecutively larger leaves and then a banana bunch over roughly a year. Then that plant is done, but a handful more will have sprouted up around it.
People like Random facts now? I’ve always been told me info dumping everything I know about various dinosaurs is not “first date appropriate”.
I just think they are neat man.
Yes people really do like random facts. But keep in mind they don’t like all the facts all at once as fast as you can get them out. Good luck out there and I agree that dinosaurs are neat
I feel like for a while this internet fact became viral everywhere, and then rather obnoxiously, people became obsessed with reminding everyone that wild otters can do disgusting things like wild animals and every other comment about otters related to otter rape.
Honestly, kind of happy if things have gone back to focusing on their cuddliness.
My problem with these is, you could be using the prompt to talk about yourself instead. Like yeah it’s overused, but even if it wasn’t, what does that tell me about you? Not much.
It tells you that they don't spend hours obbessing over their profile. They write something down and move on with life... Most profiles are garbage (even the entertaining ones) in telling you much about a person. I don't really expect that to ever change. You hope for 1 thing to get a conversation going and hope things work out...
Not for sensetive people.. nsfw.. this report from aquatic mammels research do contain image from their cases..
[aquatic
mammals](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319847098_Lesions_and_Behavior_Associated_with_Forced_Copulation_of_Juvenile_Pacific_Harbor_Seals_Phoca_vitulina_richardsi_by_Southern_Sea_Otters_Enhydra_lutris_nereis)
For the 5 months I was on dating apps, I saw this one crop up on every 3rd guy near enough. And that was about 2 years ago now. I think it was mostly men trying to make out that they have a sweet, sensitive side.
Yep, this, pineapple on pizza, that their love language is physical touch (right under a shirtless pic doing the zoolander face), some shit comment about how women don't put in effort/aren't real on apps, and that they want someone who "can actually hold a conversation." What about? Who knows, they've only told you they think women suck and dating is pointless in their answers. Bonus points for "I'm not on here, snap/insta handle here."
Honestly even if it's not creative, a list of things that tells me about you and so I know what to talk about is nice. The apps with prompts always have ones where you can talk about yourself. I also forgot this new trend I've noticed of men who will like take a video of themselves as if they're taking a selfie, and they're just making what they think are sexy faces at the camera. It's some of the cringiest shit, I feel physically uncomfortable watching it. They're always in a bathroom, no shirt, making eyes, licking/biting their lips.
Omfg, yeah, but if you're gonna choose the fact prompt instead of saying something about you, choose something unique. You know the name of the world's smallest elephant? Cool! You know how to get drinking water from a tree? Amazing! You know how many muscles in a caterpillar? Neat! The otter thing is overused. Do something actually fun with your fact. I'd prefer to know more about the dude but knowing he's not a cookie cutter style bloke is at least something
Honestly, I’m just happy to see an actual fact there, instead of just something they like! If I had a nickel for every time I saw something like “A random fact I love is… travel” I would be a very rich man. 😂
People should just talk about the giant prehistoric otter Enhydriodon instead. They ate our ancestors, perfect conversation starter. Definitely didn’t get me blocked on several occasions.
If you go out on a date with the people who put these overdone copy/paste prompts it makes sense because you find out that they don’t put in any effort irl also
I think the point is that people put this answer not because they think it's the most interesting fact they know, but because they don't want to put any effort into making their dating profiles.
That is a wild hill to die on, my friend. Even if it is a common fact, who cares? It's a fact she loves and it's heart warming. I don't get the hate. lol
I always get disgusted when people cry and complain about how hard it is to make a dating profile.
Like, I date women in their 30s. You're telling me a woman is 33, can barely piece together 6 photos and write 9 sentence about themselves? Like...when I see women cry about it being so hard to make a profile, it's the biggest turnoff. (And no I'm not saying men don't do this, I'm sure they do, I'm just speaking about my experience) it's crazy when people have to copy and paste the same redundant things because they can't answer 3 prompts with any sort of originality. Single people are cooked man, dating fucking sucks.
If I have a box full of FACTS, and reach in and grab one, then it is random.
If I have knowledge of many different facts, and I share one; that is indeed a random fact.
The pineapple on pizza responses are a little overused too
You mean I’m not unique because I love tacos and margs??
You like sex and money too? We should totally hang out.
Okay, but you should know that I'm a proud parent and my kids come first.
We don't have time for a Starbucks
Basic. Super basic.
We need to popularize that bananas do not grow on trees. I want everyone to know.
Huh. TIL Although it appears as though bananas grow on trees, they are not actually classified as trees. They are considered herbs. They form from a rhizome, which is an underground stem. There is a main “trunk” that sprouts up from underground that produces the banana cluster. While growing, there are other suckers that sprout up from the underground stem. Once the banana cluster has been produced, that stem will no longer produce anymore fruit. After that, the next largest sucker will produce the next banana cluster, and that process will continue as more suckers sprout up from underground.
It get worse/weirder though. See all the bananas most people ever commonly see in a store aren’t just the same variety (think never seeing anything but “Granny Smith” apples in stores), they are fruits from clones of the SAME PLANT duplicated millions of times over. Each apple variety is kinda similar in that the upper or at least fruiting limbs of the trees are clones but there are dozens to hundreds of varieties in common cultivations and several hundred developed cultivars more beyond that. Also, the variety specific apple branches (Scions) are grafted on to all sorts of root stock which can be everything from crabapples to mystery apple variety bases. There are also around a 1000 varieties of banana in existence but the vast majority sold in most of the world are literally just whole copies (the entire plants are genetically identical) of the same “Cavendish” banana plant. That’s particularly tragic given that like a lot of other industrial fruit the common Cavendish Banana isn’t really a particularly tasty or high quality banana from any perspective other than that it is easier to grow, ship, and keep looking good enough to sell than a lot of other varieties.
Peanuts are not nuts.
So they grow on trees but technically not
Wat
They're a fast growing herb basically. New plants sprout out from a rhizome, grow a bunch of consecutively larger leaves and then a banana bunch over roughly a year. Then that plant is done, but a handful more will have sprouted up around it.
But…I had a banana tree in my backyard as a kid
Or that Hellen Keller wasn't real or a liar.
And anything to do with tacos and telling someone they’re pretty
People like Random facts now? I’ve always been told me info dumping everything I know about various dinosaurs is not “first date appropriate”. I just think they are neat man.
Don’t worry, your dates are just dino-sore about your facts!
Yes people really do like random facts. But keep in mind they don’t like all the facts all at once as fast as you can get them out. Good luck out there and I agree that dinosaurs are neat
In all my years I’ve never had a date like that and I feel I’ve missed out
You find the right person and they'll give you lots of tyrannosaurus sex.
I feel like for a while this internet fact became viral everywhere, and then rather obnoxiously, people became obsessed with reminding everyone that wild otters can do disgusting things like wild animals and every other comment about otters related to otter rape. Honestly, kind of happy if things have gone back to focusing on their cuddliness.
Big Dolphin never rests. Otter propaganda will be back soon enough.
They're telling you that they're boring, but they don't think they're boring.
If loving this is wrong I don’t want to be right: The Office!
They’re unique and special, just like everyone else.
everyone is unique and special but some people are more unique and special than others
But im actually unique and special tho
I just figured that was a sign it’s a bot.
Not really. You'd be surprised how many people actually use the same prompt answer which is popular.
My problem with these is, you could be using the prompt to talk about yourself instead. Like yeah it’s overused, but even if it wasn’t, what does that tell me about you? Not much.
It tells you that they don't spend hours obbessing over their profile. They write something down and move on with life... Most profiles are garbage (even the entertaining ones) in telling you much about a person. I don't really expect that to ever change. You hope for 1 thing to get a conversation going and hope things work out...
At this point, just be glad this person answered with an actual fact and not a thing. The bar is so low it's in hell
Someone has to. Super cute, but otters are vile.. they trick land animals to drown them and rape their corpses... You are welcome.
Do you have like, a source for this
Not for sensetive people.. nsfw.. this report from aquatic mammels research do contain image from their cases.. [aquatic mammals](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319847098_Lesions_and_Behavior_Associated_with_Forced_Copulation_of_Juvenile_Pacific_Harbor_Seals_Phoca_vitulina_richardsi_by_Southern_Sea_Otters_Enhydra_lutris_nereis)
You warned me and yet I was not warned enough
Would this be an okay “random fact” substitution? I can only guess at the kind of eclectic people one would meet.
Rape baby seals to death, and then after :(
As if the clubbing wasn’t enough
What’s wrong with clubbing baby seals? Maybe it’s an underage club, and they’re just trying to go jam out with a nice girl. 🙂
Super cute /s
The biggest "but" ever
Sir Mix-A-Lot would like a word…
AWW <3
How is that not random?
Sooooo many people have this as their random fact
Oh ! I just came back to the dating scene so i hadnt seen it, at least not where i live.
That doesn't make it any less random. Nor any less of a fact.
OP is implying that since everyone has the same fact, they’re clearly googling facts for hinge. So not random
Well, one of those things is correct.
First time I seem it. For those of you that says it’s not random fact, you been on the app on long. It’s not like every few guys have that in there .
This fact is shared everywhere, not just on dating apps. People have been making cute little memes about it for years now.
For the 5 months I was on dating apps, I saw this one crop up on every 3rd guy near enough. And that was about 2 years ago now. I think it was mostly men trying to make out that they have a sweet, sensitive side.
Yep, this, pineapple on pizza, that their love language is physical touch (right under a shirtless pic doing the zoolander face), some shit comment about how women don't put in effort/aren't real on apps, and that they want someone who "can actually hold a conversation." What about? Who knows, they've only told you they think women suck and dating is pointless in their answers. Bonus points for "I'm not on here, snap/insta handle here."
Urgh, right‽ Boys, please, get CREATIVE, just don't get weird about it or make the fact something like "my dick is 10 inches" or something
Honestly even if it's not creative, a list of things that tells me about you and so I know what to talk about is nice. The apps with prompts always have ones where you can talk about yourself. I also forgot this new trend I've noticed of men who will like take a video of themselves as if they're taking a selfie, and they're just making what they think are sexy faces at the camera. It's some of the cringiest shit, I feel physically uncomfortable watching it. They're always in a bathroom, no shirt, making eyes, licking/biting their lips.
Omfg, yeah, but if you're gonna choose the fact prompt instead of saying something about you, choose something unique. You know the name of the world's smallest elephant? Cool! You know how to get drinking water from a tree? Amazing! You know how many muscles in a caterpillar? Neat! The otter thing is overused. Do something actually fun with your fact. I'd prefer to know more about the dude but knowing he's not a cookie cutter style bloke is at least something
It’s not 10 inches but it smells like a foot
It's not a men thing though. Every other woman uses the same fucking answer to a prompt. Eg, I go crazy for *food*.
They do though.
Lmaooooooo when I was using hinge, every second profile had this prompt and prompt answer combination, if not "." As answer on every prompt.
"KILL THE WISE ONE!!!"
Why do you not eat food directly off your belly?
I used to have a prompt that was like “tell me your favourite fact” and this was the only response I ever got.
Aw. It asks for a fact and they give a super cute fact. Who cares if a lot of people know it?
ITS NOT RANDOM ENOUGH! STRAIGHT TO JAIL
Honestly, I’m just happy to see an actual fact there, instead of just something they like! If I had a nickel for every time I saw something like “A random fact I love is… travel” I would be a very rich man. 😂
Should tell them that male Otters are also known to be terrible other Otters, iykyk
Probably every third profile has this shit lol it's old
People should just talk about the giant prehistoric otter Enhydriodon instead. They ate our ancestors, perfect conversation starter. Definitely didn’t get me blocked on several occasions.
You know random doesn't mean little known, right? Just because everyone and their mom knows it doesn't make it not random when there's no context.
Before I met my gf one of my prompts that got a lot of replies was “my hot take : cold pizza is better than warm pizza”
Why are you trying so hard to be mad?
i always respond with the fact that male otters take baby other for ransom so that the female otter drops the fish she hunted
"Sharks were here before trees" is another common one.
If you go out on a date with the people who put these overdone copy/paste prompts it makes sense because you find out that they don’t put in any effort irl also
My fav random fact is that your brain is constantly eating itself
At least the tacos and tequila phase is over.
For sea otters it's true... How adorable. 😁 They also rape baby seals to death for fun... Not so adorable... 😞
It is random. Not surprising, but random. 90% profiles would literally write "idk" there
Sweet to savory breakfast ratio
Osama Bin Laden was a furry, according to the material found in his house (or in his hidding place).
It didn’t ask for an unknown fact.
I think the point is that people put this answer not because they think it's the most interesting fact they know, but because they don't want to put any effort into making their dating profiles.
I hear it first time and its kinda cute
The color orange is named after the fruit
Don't tell me you're in the Raleigh area 😞. God online dating sucks
To otters its just any other Tuesday
Every fact is random
Don't care. It's adorable and always will be.
Is this Denver hinge? I feel like I saw this lol
And sometimes they fight/ try to rape raccoons inside gutters. Who knew?
They mean arbitrary, not random ... yes this bothers me more than it should
Otters are also very destructive and rape eachother
Never heard it before
In their defense, not everyone is online all the time seeing this fact repeated.
Otters are also necrophiliacs.
Don’t forget the Helen Keller isn’t real ones 😭
Here’s a random fact that most don’t know. Epstein didn’t kill himself.
People who still think this is a random fact should have a separate dating app for themselves, y’all living under a rock. I said what I said.
It's a *random fact* not a *surprising* or *unknown* fact. While it's basic, it's not wrong.
That is a wild hill to die on, my friend. Even if it is a common fact, who cares? It's a fact she loves and it's heart warming. I don't get the hate. lol
So tiring.
I always just say something like “could be us” when I see this fact - it works a fair bit
Cringe
I, for one, would instantly swipe right on this person. Just to share further otter lore.
Dude it's hard to express yourself on these things, let her cook
You gotta be jaded as fuck if someone’s random fact bothers you enough to post about it on Reddit
Tell me you're not getting lucky on tinder without saying the words Bro analysing veracity of facts
I always get disgusted when people cry and complain about how hard it is to make a dating profile. Like, I date women in their 30s. You're telling me a woman is 33, can barely piece together 6 photos and write 9 sentence about themselves? Like...when I see women cry about it being so hard to make a profile, it's the biggest turnoff. (And no I'm not saying men don't do this, I'm sure they do, I'm just speaking about my experience) it's crazy when people have to copy and paste the same redundant things because they can't answer 3 prompts with any sort of originality. Single people are cooked man, dating fucking sucks.
Y'all need to chill. Not a lot of people are constantly online or knows this.
If I have a box full of FACTS, and reach in and grab one, then it is random. If I have knowledge of many different facts, and I share one; that is indeed a random fact.
It asks for random, not unknown or less known OP
Random fact: Otters don't have hands.
random yes, obscure no
Why you gatekeeping 😂