Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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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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Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.
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It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.
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15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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A type of strawberry that almost became extinct is now being sold in Europe. It tastes like pineapple so they call it pineberry.
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