The Toxic Avocado

At least they are to some animals, such as horses, cattle, goats and birds.

From the ASPCA website:

Avocado leaves, fruit, seeds and bark may contain a toxic principle known as persin. The Guatemalan variety, a common one found in stores, appears to be the most problematic. Other varieties of avocado can have different degrees of toxic potential.

Swimming in Spit

Your body produces enough saliva during your lifetime to fill two swimming pools.

Are You Joy, Love, or Peace?

You Are Love

Your happiness is giving, warm, and compassionate. You get satisfaction from personal relationships and connections. You're the type of person who loves to be in love, and that doesn't have to necessarily mean romantic love. You value deep friendships and knowing someone well. You consider your friends to be your family. You take a leap and put people first in your life. It's not about how much you get but how much you give.

Are You Joy, Love, or Peace?

Largest Eggs in the World

The ostrich lays the largest eggs on land, but the whale shark lays the largest eggs in the world.*

An egg from a whale shark measuring 14 inches in diameter was found in the Gulf of Mexico in 1953.

*Not counting the huge eggs the Cowboys have laid in several games this season.

How to Make Collard Greens

This looks SO good and an interesting change-of-pace to use turkey instead of pork.

Panglossian

Panglossian   adjective [pan-glos-ee-uh n, - glaw-see-, pang-]

characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity

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This would describe most of we die-hard Cowboys fans as we drink our blue Kool-Aid.