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Have you ever wondered?

W wahm922Member
Have you ever wondered if your mind is normal or different??
Well, do this little mind exercise and find out at the end!!

Free will or synaptic wiring? You be the judge. Check out the
following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow.
There's no trick or surprise.

Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions
one at a time and as quickly as you can.

Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance
until you've done each of them...really.

Now, scroll down (but not too fast, you might miss something)........

What is:

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1+5?

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2+4
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3+3

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4+2

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5+1

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Now repeat saying the number 6 to yourself as fast as
you can for 15 seconds. Then scroll down.



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QUICK!!! THINK OF A VEGETABLE!
Then scroll down.

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Keep going.



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You're thinking of a carrot, right?


If not, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are
different enough to think of something else. 98% of people
will answer with carrot when given this exercise. Freaky, huh?
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W westvatexanMember
Fruit or vegetable?

Tomato fruit Botanically speaking, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant, i.e. a fruit. However, from a culinary perspective the tomato is typically served as a meal, or part of a main course of a meal, meaning that it would be considered a vegetable (a culinary term which has no botanical meaning).

This argument has led to actual legal implications in the United States. In 1887, U.S. tariff laws which imposed a duty on vegetables but not on fruits caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy in 1893, declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, using the popular definition which classifies vegetable by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert. The case is known as Nix v. Hedden.

It should be noted that strictly speaking the holding of the case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883 and not much else. The court does not purport to reclassify tomato for botanical or for any other purpose other than paying a tax under a tariff act.

In concordance with this classification, the tomato has been proposed as the state fruit of New Jersey. Arkansas takes both sides by declaring the "South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato" to be both the state fruit and the state vegetable in the same law, citing both its botanical and culinary classifications

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