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Climbing Goats in Morroco

onlinehillman — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:51:00 UTC

Goats on trees are found mostly only in Morocco. The goats climb them because they like to eat the fruit of the argan tree, which is similar to an olive. Farmers actually follow the herds of goats as they move from tree to tree - not because it is so strange to see goats in trees - but because the fruit of the tree has a nut inside, which the goats can't digest, so they spit it up or excrete it which the farmers collect.

The nut contains 1-3 kernels, which can be ground to make argan oil used in cooking and cosmetics.

the price of a kidney - any thoughts?

onlinehillman — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:35:00 UTC

Found this in a law review:

Divorce cases can be smooth, or they can be very messy.

In many divorce cases, the settlement process can be very tension filled and full of acrimony. People have emotional attachment to many items, and will fight tooth and nail for each item. However, the demand from the estranged man in this divorce case was totally out of the ordinary - he had donated his kidney to his wife when she needed it. After that, he found out that she was cheating on him, and now he wants his kidney back, or he wants the value of his kidney. God I should think the lawyers will have a field day. I'll let you know if they ever publish the outcome.

wake up and smell the salt

onlinehillman — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:39:00 UTC

Just found out that slugs have four noses.

balls

onlinehillman — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:26:00 UTC

Psychologists have reported that you can stimulate the activity of one brain hemisphere (affecting your emotions and perhaps switching on its distintive problem-solving abilities) by squeezing a tennis ball with the opposite hand.