The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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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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While pumpkins are typically orange, they can also be green, white, red, gray, and even blue.
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Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
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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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An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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