Strawberries Are Not Berries, Yet Avocados and Watermelon Are

Ready to have your mind blown, your childish innocence shattered, your ideas of everything right in the world torn asunder? Strawberries are not really berries, but watermelon, pumpkins, bananas, and avocados are. It's ok. Take a few deep breaths. We're right here with you.

While we've tended to define berries as any small edible fruit, the official definition of a berry is "a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary." By this definition, oranges, kumquats, blueberries, and even tomatoes can be considered part of the berry family.

Strawberries, on the other hand, are known as "accessory fruits," which makes it sound like they did something wrong. They're just trying to exist, man! In these fruits, the surrounding flesh around the seed isn't derived from the fruit's ovaries but from the receptacle in which the ovaries are found. When fully developed, these aggregates have merged together into one single fruit. Hows that for fruitception?



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Photos from Madam Saje's 50th birthday bash

Nollywood actress, Fausat Balogun popularly known as Madam Saje, turned 50 over the weekend. Present at the birthday bash were fellow actors and actresses, Fathia Balogun, Iyabo Ojo, Mercy Aigbe Gentry, Bimbo Akinsanya, Funke Etti, Mistura Asunramu and Liz DaSilva among others.



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“I’m still taking classes, still seeing a shrink” – Tonto Dikeh talks about her depression in new interview

In a recent interview with Man Hour Tv, controversial actress and singer, Tonto Dikeh, gave an insight about her life, the depression she had, her childhood and her future plans as a musician.




On her depression, she said “It brought me back to the beginning, I saw my self as a baby.I had to start from there. I’m still healing, I’m still taking classes, still seeing a shrink. Depression is the deadliest disease that I’ve ever come across. It is something that can kill you in a snap.”


She further disclosed how she loves to stay in-door saying “I think I’m very, very, very misunderstood. I’m a very homely person. I actually never go out. If you ever see me in a club, it’s going to be because something is happening, like my friend is having something. I just never go out. That’s something people don’t know. I love to be at home, I love to eat food from my house. I don’t go out to eat. I’m a home girl.”

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Ini Edo replaces Genevieve Nnaji at Miss Earth Nigeria 2013

Nollywood star, Genevieve Nnaji was replaced by her colleague, Iniobong Edo Ehiagwina as a celebrity judge at the just concluded Miss Earth Nigeria 2013, for failing to return to Nigeria from her trip abroad.
Ini Edo joined Hollywood actor, Boris Kodjoe, Hollywood celebrity, model and video vixen, Amber Rose, ace photographer, Kelechi Amadi Obi and Karlie Redd as judges for the environmentally oriented pageant.

Beating 23 other contestants to emerge the 2013 Miss Earth Nigeria queen which held last night at the grand ball room of the Oriental Hotel, Lagos, Model and video vixen Marie Miller went home with a brand new 2013 Toyota Avensis and N3million one year salary. She will also represent Nigeria at the Miss Earth pageant later this year.




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Marie Miller wins Miss Earth Nigeria 2013

Sunday was the grand finale of the Miss Earth beauty pageant and 23-year-old, Marie Miller clinched the coveted crown.

Video Vixen Marie beat other 23 contestants to emerge Miss Earth Nigeria queen 2013 at the event held at Oriental Hall, Lekki.

Marie, who will be wearing the crown for the next one year, got a new 2013 Toyota Avensis and N3 million one year salary.

Again, she will be representing Nigeria at the Miss Earth international pageant later in the year.

On ground to judge the contestants were Amber Rose, Boris Kodjoe and Ini Edo.

Miss Earth Nigeria is an affiliated to the international Miss Earth World pageant with her headquarters in the Philippines.
The Miss Earth Organizers believe that beauty queens would be a good and effective advocate of worthy causes.

To give life to this vision, Carousel Productions Inc. organized and launched in 2001 the Pageant, a beauty event whose reason is to have its candidates and winners actively promote and get involved in the preservation of the environment and the protection of Mother Earth.


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