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| | Facts | - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - People from North America prefer pickles with warts, where as Europeans prefer pickles with no warts.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - An ear of corn is more than 80% water.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - An ear of corn consists of 80% water.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In China, there is a species of yam that is used to make a dye.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Eating parsley after eating an onion can help in getting rid of onion breath.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Before the 17th century, carrots used to be the colour purple.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - A turnip was used to make the first jack o' lantern.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Broccoli was first introduced into France during the royal marriage of Catherine de Medici to Henry II of France.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - From all the vegetables, beets contain the most sugar.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Asparagus comes in three colors: green, white and purple.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The largest cultivated crop in the United States is corn.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Ironically, watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Feb 24 2005) - In the 18th century, potatoes were given out as a dessert. They were served in a napkin, salted and hot.
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