The native Americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit each other. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
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An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
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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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If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.
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Broccoli is ‘man-made’ through the breeding of different cabbage crops.
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