It's less unhealthy to light your cigarette with a lighter than with matches.

Not the fact I'm looking for but contains another word from my answer!

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Lighters work out cheaper than matches?

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Not sure that is true. However you are starting to think along the right lines,

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Matches are better for the environment than lighters.

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Matches are better for the environment than lighters.

Er possibly but still not what I am looking for.

Matches - Yes
Lighter - Yes

What is the most BASIC fact you might think about them.

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We use matches an lighters to light our cigarettes.

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We use matches an lighters to light our cigarettes.

Well yes whilst true NOT counter intuitive.

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Both Matches and Lighters use friction as an ignition source.

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Both Matches and Lighters use friction as an ignition source.

Also probably not actually true.

OK I don't think anyone is close so.

Think Matches. Think lighters, then, think chicken and egg.

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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match?

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Think Matches. Think lighters, then, think chicken and egg.

It is easier to cook an egg with a lighter than a chicken with a match! (LOL)

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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match?

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

The cigarette Lighter was invented in 1816 by German Chemist JW Dobereiner.
The match was invented in 1826 by English Chemist John Walker.

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Curses, i hate winning, means i have to think the next one up.

Give me a few minutes.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

An interesting fact about Bananas.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

The Cavendish is a genetic clone? They are all exactly the same.

I think i may have picked a tricky topic again, there are a great many unusual things about bananas, but after enough gassing we're bound to reach the one i had in mind.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Ok Simonator, I'll take your use of the words "gassing around" to be a clue.

Bananas are picked very green and very unripe because in that state they can be shipped long distances more easily without bruising. They are kept in very carefully controlled environments and eventually ethylene gas is used to ripen them.

(I read a really interesting book this year entitled Banana: The Fate Of The Fruit That Changed The World. If you are interested in botany, geo-political issues and human nature, this book is for you!)

It was indeed.

Ripening, and subsequently decomposing, bananas produce ethylene gas. Many fruits' ripening process involves a small amount of ethylene to trigger other enzyme processes, but bananas produce so much they will ripen other fruit near them.

I think you were close enough Angela, your turn.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Thank you for the win.

A male raccoon is called a _________, a female raccoon is called a ___________ and a baby raccoon is called a ______________.

(You all knew I would post something raccoon related, didn't you?!!!)

Boar, Sow & Kit.

A group of young raccoons is called a nursery
A group of mature raccoons is called a gaze.

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