Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.
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It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.
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If you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or natural red 4, the product contains crushed up bugs.
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An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.
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Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.
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A cauliflower that weighs almost 72.5kg has broken the world record by almost 3kg.
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For clean fruit, fill a bowl with water (or, for bigger batches, use a clean sink), add 1 cup of vinegar, and stir. Add fruit and leave to soak for 10 minutes. The water will be dirty and the fruit will be sparkly clean with no wax or dirty film.
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Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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