1 Urinary incontinence occurs more often in women than in men. Pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause may contribute to urinary incontinence in women. 2  Weak bladder muscles, overactive bladder muscles, and nerve damage may also cause urinary incontinence in women.  Urinary incontinence in women is common and treatable.
The corn tassel is the part of the plant where the pollen comes from, see bottom left picture. The pollen is what is used to actually pollinated the ear of corn which causes the ear of corn to grow.
Corn (maize) wasn't really discovered so much as developed by the native peoples of northern Mexico, possibly as much as 12,000 years ago. It's unclear exactly which plants they started with in the development process, but one of them may have been teosinte, a tall native grass with its seeds where the tassels are on modern corn plants.