12648. Food Facts

Many cheap meat products such as sausages and burgers are made from ‘mechanically recovered meat' which consists of a meat slurry collected from washing bones and mincing up parts of the dead animal that aren't used for anything else.

12649. Food Facts

Jellyfish are eaten dried and salted in some parts of the world. And in the Gilbert Islands, jellyfish ovaries are served fried.

12650. Food Facts

The Russian Jewish dish kishke is made by stuffing a chicken skin with flour, butter and spices and boiling it in chicken stock. Dry it out, then cut it into slices as a snack.

12651. Food Facts

In China and Japan, sheets of dried jellyfish are sold for soaking and turning back into slimy jellyfish ready for cooking.

12652. Food Facts

Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all gave condemned prisoners a last meal.

12653. Food Facts

The Chinese eat monster barnacles the size of an adult's fist.

12654. Food Facts

The town of Bunol, in Spain, has an annual tomato fight when up to 25,000 people throw around 100 tonnes (220,000 pounds) of tomatoes at each other. The streets can be flooded up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) deep with juice.

12655. Food Facts

The reproductive organs of sea urchins are eaten raw in many parts of the world, including Japan, Chile and France.

12656. Food Facts

Raw, pickled jellyfish are eaten in the Samoan Islands.

12657. Food Facts

Yeast are tiny fungi (mould), present in bread, beer and wine.The yeast eat sugar in the ingredients, making the gas which forms the bubbles in beer and wine and the holes in bread.

12658. Food Facts

In the Samoan Islands, the intestines of sea cucumbers are sold in jars, steeped in sea water. The sea cucumber is a slithery, tube-like animal and not a cucumber at all. When it's cooked, it is called a sea slug.

12659. Food Facts

In the UK, game – wild animals and birds shot in the fields – is often hung until it is ‘high', which means it is hung up on a hook until it is starting to go off.

12660. Food Facts

In the Masai Mara in Africa people drink blood drained from the neck of a live animal with a straw, mixed up with milk.

12661. Food Facts

The alcoholic drink mescal has a cactus maggot preserved in the bottle.

12662. Food Facts

In France, calves' eyes are soaked in water, then boiled and stuffed and finally deep fried in breadcrumbs.

12663. Food Facts

Most US states don't allow alcohol or tobacco in a prisoner's last meal.

12664. Food Facts

Eels are sold live in markets around the world and killed just before cooking – or before putting in the bag to go home, if you don't want the bag wriggling all the way.

12665. Gland

Gland : hypothalamus
Hormone : releasing and inhibiting hormones and factors posterior pituitary hormones produced here.

12666. Gland

Gland : posterior pituitary gland
Hormone : receives hormones from hypothalamus no hormones synthesised here stores and secretes the following: oxytocin antidiuretic hormone (adh) (vasopressin).

12667. Gland

Gland : anterior pituitary gland
Hormone : follicle stimulating hormone (fsh) luteinising hormone (lh) prolactin thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) adrenocorticotrophic hormone (acth or corticotrophin) growth hormone (gh).

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