The average ear of corn has 800 kernels in 16 rows.
A cob will always have an even number of rows.
The ear or cob is part of the flower, while the individual kernel is a seed.
More than 90 million acres of land is dedicated to growing corn.
The average ear of corn has 800 kernels in 16 rows.
A cob will always have an even number of rows.
The ear or cob is part of the flower, while the individual kernel is a seed.
More than 90 million acres of land is dedicated to growing corn.
The average cherry tree has 7,000 cherries.
Washington State grows an estimated 62 percent of the US’s sweet cherries.
Traverse City, Michigan, is known as the Cherry Capital of the World, and grows well over half of the country’s tart cherries.
There are more than 1,000 different varieties of cherries.
Botanically speaking, cucumbers are a fruit, but they are used as a vegetable. Similar to tomatoes.
Michigan ranks 1st in the nation for production of pickling cucumbers and 4th in the nation for fresh cucumbers.
The term “cool as a cucumber” is actually derived from the cucumber’s ability to cool the temperature of the blood.
Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.
In the United States, more tomatoes are consumed than any other single fruit or vegetable.
Tomatoes increase in weight as they ripen, even after harvesting.
There are over 10,000 varieties of tomato, these come in a variety of colours including pink, purple, black, yellow and white.
Tomatoes originally came from South America, where their Aztec name translated to plump thing with a navel.
Coffee is consumed in such great quantities, it is the world’s 2nd largest traded commodity, surpassed only by crude oil. It is our most beloved beverage after water. It’s worth well over $100 billion worldwide.
A coffee bean is a seed of the coffee plant, and is the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit often referred to as a cherry. Even though they are seeds, they are referred to as ‘beans’ because of their resemblance to true beans.
Hawaii is the only American state that grows coffee.
Coffee stays warm 20% longer when you add cream.
Two percent of the water on earth is glacier ice at the North and South Poles. This ice is fresh water and could be melted; however, it is too far away from where people live to be usable.
Less than 1% of all the water on earth is fresh water that we can actually use.
Water regulates the Earth’s temperature.
Water covers about 71% of the earth’s surface.
The San Diego Zoo is home to over 3,700 rare and endangered animals representing more than 650 species and subspecies, and a prominent botanical collection with more than 700,000 exotic plants.
The USA has at least 355 zoos.
The largest zoo in the US is Red McCombs Wildlife with over 5.000 hectares (12.500 acres).
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April’s full Pink Moon will rise on the night of Monday, April 26, reaching peak illumination at 11:33 P.M. ET. This Full Moon is one of two supermoons this year.
The Full Moon phase occurs when the Sun and the Moon are on different sides of the Earth. In this phase, the Moon is fully illuminated by the Sun.
Basically, the Full Moon phase lasts only for a couple of moments, the period when the sunlit part of the Moon is at 100%. On some parts of the planet, the actual Full Moon occurs during the day.
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