@museumofscience: You can predict how many segments are inside a citrus fruit. 🍊🍋‍🟩   @Alex Dainis 🧬🔬 explains how citrus fruits develop from the ovaries of citrus flowers. Those ovaries contain multiple distinct sections called locules, and each locule develops into its own segment inside the fruit. By peeling back the tiny stem remaining on the fruit, you can see exactly where each locule connected to the tree. Count those dots and you have your segment count!    #Experiments  #AmazingFacts #ScienceVisuals #MuseumTok #EduTok

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heythatsmycat
Heythatsmycat 🇨🇦 :
“Unfortunately I can’t build pivot tables but a special skill I CAN bring to this position is that I accurately predict the number of segments in ANY citrus fruit.”
2026-05-15 18:51:22
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stephiestephers
Stephanie (Stephie) 🇨🇦 :
Why did I just assume they all have the same number of segments? 😂
2026-05-15 21:56:14
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eneptune_
Nҽρƚυɳҽ ♆ :
Can a citrus only have 1 big segment or not
2026-05-16 05:30:59
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well_this_is_pretty
Hello Bees :
Totally going to wow my students later!
2026-05-15 13:43:24
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therealsantoslhalper
Bort :
TLDR: Count the dots on the citrus butt
2026-05-15 21:11:50
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chreid_
Chreid :
Gotta be a party trick.
2026-05-15 13:56:43
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ashabc1234
ashabc1234 :
Screw the negative comments. I love learning stuff like this! 🥰
2026-05-17 04:15:46
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liamglass41
liamglass41 :
Your In stem btw
2026-07-23 16:50:26
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mahmudmilik
mahmudmilik :
i just learnt something ❤️❤️
2026-05-15 18:27:35
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jeffreykleinhenz6
Jeff :
Incredible. Never heard about this before. Thank you for sharing.
2026-05-16 01:56:26
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cdtn14
Cecillia Nguyen :
On the mangosteen there is like a small flower shaped bottom. It is very visible and so far I have checked, the flower shaped bottom correlates with how many segments there is in the fruit.
2026-05-15 19:05:18
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thatronan
Ronan :
I don’t know when I’ll use this information but I know when it happens it will be tricking a mythical creature to save the world.
2026-05-16 14:33:26
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blahblahblah09123
Don't Care :
each hair in a stock of corn is connected to each kernel of corn on the cob
2026-05-18 05:41:03
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atomsmasher99
Atom :
how many bar bets will this win me? ... at least 1 😂
2026-05-16 15:33:43
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savagecape
SavageCape :
I support this single use trivia answer for the future, stored in the almost useless information category part of my brain
2026-05-17 21:55:37
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itsme.illusionrob
mamihlapinatapai :
everyone's so boring like dw you'll still live for knowing this btw
2026-05-17 00:16:43
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skellyuwu
skelly 🦖 :
people just don't like cool information anymore for some reason (I thought this was very cool)
2026-05-16 05:06:26
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blendingblue
laurent :
I'm so going to use this to place bets
2026-05-16 04:38:23
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jkwrangler
Jacob Greenberg :
Oh the bets I would have made as a chef with this knowledge
2026-05-18 01:38:20
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trufflepesto
Trufflepesto and 307 others :
This will impress my gf 👍
2026-05-15 23:38:47
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.anganangan
XinThink :
2026-05-16 04:16:29
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merrychristmasf
MerryChristmasF 🇨🇦 :
Now I’m going to “predict” how many segments in any citrus fruit and not tell anyone how I did it.
2026-05-15 21:02:17
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rotting4ngels
🚦 ᛝ 𐂯 Mikey :
wait thats so cool oh my golly
2026-05-17 15:10:32
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finiteryan
Ryan :
hey bro i need to know how many segments this citrus fruit is going to have, but you can't cut it, have you watched any useful tiktok videos that teach you how to do this?
2026-05-17 04:56:13
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