Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry!
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Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.
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Avocados are poisonous to birds.
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You can overdose on caffeine.
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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The Aztecs were the first to serve chocolate as a drink. They also mixed it with hot chili pepper to make it really 'hot'.
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Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
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The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
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