Cracked Egg Trivia

The oak tree, it's pretty iconic but is there really anything interesting about it? The answer is yes, so here are a few fun facts about America's National Tree. 1. There are three main types of oaks. Let's start with the basics, the three main types of oak trees are the White Oak, Red Oak, and the Black Oak. You can identify what type of oak you're looking at in the way you'd expect, the bark of a white oak would be grayish in color, while a red oak's bark would be dark reddish brown, and black oak bark would be black. 2. The oak tree isn't only the national tree of America.  Various types of oaks are the national trees of many other countries, including England, Estonia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Jordan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Wales. 3. Oak tree acorns are poisonous. If fed in large amounts to livestock, the acorns and leaves of oak trees are poisonous and can lead to serious side effects like kidney damage and gastroenteritis...

Julian Fellowes was born on August 17, 1949, in Cairo, Egypt. His father, Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes, was a diplomat working for the British embassy at the time. And high profile careers ran in the family, his great-grandfather, John Wrightson, was the founder of the Downton Agricultural College. Fellowes childhood home was at Wetherby Place in South Kensington until he was about ten when they moved to a house in Chiddingly, East Sussex. The new house was conveniently placed as it was close to London where Julian's father now worked for Shell, an oil and gas company. Fellowes once said of his father that he was "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it. My mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. At the flat she'd be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and drink. Lovely, really." In the village where they lived there was another family, the Kin...