- To make one glass of orange juice, 50 glasses of water are needed to grow enough oranges to make the juice.
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- The most common pear world-wide is the Bartlett. It is bell-shaped, sweet and soft with a light green colour.
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- After the "Popeye" comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
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- In China, there is a species of yam that is used to make a dye.
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- Eating parsley after eating an onion can help in getting rid of onion breath.
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- Before the 17th century, carrots used to be the colour purple.
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- A turnip was used to make the first jack o' lantern.
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- The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds.
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- Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality.
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- Broccoli was first introduced into France during the royal marriage of Catherine de Medici to Henry II of France.
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- From all the vegetables, beets contain the most sugar.
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- Asparagus comes in three colors: green, white and purple.
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- One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples.
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- The largest cultivated crop in the United States is corn.
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- Ironically, watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
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- Iceberg lettuce, which is also called "head lettuce" was called "crisphead" until the 1920's. The name was changed to iceberg lettuce because when the lettuce was being shipped by California growers they would put lots of ice underneath the lettuce to keep it crisp.
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- In the 18th century, potatoes were given out as a dessert. They were served in a napkin, salted and hot.
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- People from North America prefer pickles with warts, where as Europeans prefer pickles with no warts.
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- Tomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them.
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