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| Did You
Also Know? |
| Guess
how many honeybees it takes to produce a tablespoon of
honey? If you said 12, then you are
right! |
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| How
many turkeys do Americans eat at Thanksgiving?
Americans gobble up 45 million turkeys each year on
Thanksgiving - about one for every seven people. |
Hawaii is the only state that grows pineapples. You
can grow your own by cutting (or screwing) the top off a
fruit and planting it in a pot in a warm place. In 3 to 4
years fruits develop from tiny, lavender flowers that grow
from the center of the leaves. |
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Which vegetable do Americans eat the most?
Potatoes. The average person in the United States eats
140 pounds of potatoes every year. Bet you didn't
realize that the potato was the first vegetable to be
grown in space!
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Three quarters of all raisins are eaten with breakfast. California
is the heart of the world's largest raisin producing state
because of ideal weather conditions for drying freshly
picked California grapes into sun-dried raisins. |
| Sheep
raised in North Dakota produce more than 800,000 pounds of
wool each year. That
is enough wool to knit more than 600,000 sweaters. |
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The biggest hamburger ever served weighed 8,266 lbs.
It
was cooked in 2001 at the Burger Fest in Seymour, Wisconsin.
Hungry hamburger fans can visit Seymour, the
"Home of the Hamburger" and site of the Hamburger
Hall of Fame, paying tribute to hamburger inventor Charles
Nagreen. According to local legend, Nagreen served the first
burger in 1885 at the Outagamie County Fair. |
Why do fresh apples float?
Fresh
apples float because 25% (or ΒΌ ) of their volume is air. |
Maine produces almost all of the nation's wild blueberries.
Wild
blueberries are smaller and sweeter than "commercial
blueberries", and they hold their shape, texture and
deep-blue color through a variety of baking and
manufacturing processes. |
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