102. They paved the parking lot at school. While usually I am not a fan of paving, I am delighted that my shoes will no longer look like I dragged them through the mud behind my car every day.
103. The weather forecast calls for rain next week. Jordan is the third driest country in the world -- we need rain!
104. Tumeric, which often is found in curry, is extremely good for you. Eat more curry! (I wonder if the health benefits extend if you spread it on your skin, as some women in south India do, leaving an odd yellow color behind. It takes a while to get used to.)
105. Pasta may have come from the Middle East. Italians, take note! According to Wikipedia, in the Jerusalem Talmud, there is a kind of boiled dough called itrium eaten in Palestine from 3-5 AD. There is an Arabic word, "itriyya," which refers to dried thin strips of semolina which were then cooked (and there is a lot of vermicelli in Arabic sweets). In 1154, this itriyya was made in Sicily, according to a text written by Muhammad ad-Idrisi; this itriyya comes in long strips and also in sheets, as in some kinds of modern pasta.
106. The equivalent of "fast food" in Egypt is called kosherie: elbow macaroni cooked with onions and lentils, with vinegar and hot sauce on the side. It is excellent.
107. There is a Serbian new wave band called Pasta ZZ.
108. The apple is part of the rose family.
109. The words for "apples" and "evils" in Latin are identical: "mala".
110. The Guinness Book of World Records entry for the largest apple is from Hirosaki, Japan, weighing 4 pounds 5 ounces, in 2005.
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