🍴 FOOD FOR THOUGHT
This fruit floats in water because roughly a quarter of its volume is air.
What is an apple?
Complete it: “El 2ird bi 3ein immo…”
What is “…ghazal.”
Before Spotify, many of us destroyed the family computer downloading music from this file-sharing service whose logo featured headphones.
What is Napster?
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
Missy Elliott’s 2002 hit instructed listeners to “put my thing down, flip it and reverse it.” Name the song.
What is Work It?
This condiment was sold as a medicine in the 1830s, with claims that it could treat ailments including indigestion.
What is ketchup?
Before Google Maps, this website let you print six pages of driving directions that somebody in the passenger seat had to decipher.
What is MapQuest?
Scientists estimate that this tiny area of your body can host hundreds to thousands of species of bacteria, making it a surprisingly diverse little ecosystem.
What is the belly button?
This Atlanta duo released a double album in 2003.
The holes in Swiss-style cheeses are created by bubbles of this gas released during fermentation.
What is carbon dioxide?
Long before ChatGPT, we were typing full questions into this search engine, hoping a fictional butler would have the answer.
What is Ask Jeeves?
Your body produces roughly 1–1.5 liters of this substance every single day, most of which you swallow without noticing.
What is saliva?
This producer was behind both Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” and Ludacris’ “Rollout (My Business).”
Who is Timbaland?
Despite its reputation as a vegetable, this green food is botanically a fruit and, more specifically, a berry.
What is an avocado?
Before the iPhone, this Motorola flip phone became one of the defining status symbols of the mid-2000s.
What is the Razr?
Humans are born with around 270 bones but usually have only this many by adulthood, because many fuse together.
What is 206
Before becoming a solo superstar, Lil Wayne was a member of this New Orleans rap group alongside Juvenile, B.G. and Turk.
Who are the Hot Boys?
The word “salary” is traditionally associated with the Latin word salarium, itself connected to this once extremely valuable foodstuff.
What is salt?
This peer-to-peer service launched in 2000 and became infamous for giving you a song titled “50 Cent” that was somehow both not 50 Cent and also a computer virus.
What is LimeWire?
This tiny body part is the only part of the human body with no blood vessels at all, getting its oxygen directly from the air.
What is the cornea?
This rapper won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, becoming the first hip-hop artist to win in that category.
Who is Eminem?