And why there are a lot of teeth breaking corn at the bottom of your microwave pop corn.

It seems that some of the seeds shrink instead of pop. and that popping has to do a lot with humidity in the seeds. When the seed's shell is cracked, the humidity won't stay in the seed and there will not be enough pressure for the seed to pop.

Thank you for that.

You can always blame the search engine that doesn't work for multiple threads

Mine is the shorter version. For dummies

Well I missed the other thread, so I thank you from the bottom of my sad little geeky heart for this info. It has indeed made a great close for my day, ne the week.

I ain't kidding, this a great piece of trivia

This sounds very reasonable. Why did it take the scientists so long to come up with a simple explanation like that?

MarieLouise said:

They say it's the first research anyone ever did about this. That's probably why.

Now if science can only explain where those missing socks go when they're in the dryer, then the universe will truly hold no mysteries.