Link: Americans eat more than 1.5 billion pounds of potato chips per year, about 6 pounds per person.
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One of the great joys of listening to NPR is not knowing where the next story will take me. Will it be the Steppes of Mongolia? A prison in Alabama? The inside of the Federal Reserve?
Often embedded within these pieces are facts, figures, and fascinating trivia; but the smooth, dulcet tones of the reporter distract me, allowing the information to slip out the back. I will attempt to collect these morsels of hard data and post them here.
If you hear something, share something. But only the facts; not subjective thoughts, loose approximations, or unprovable claims.
Often embedded within these pieces are facts, figures, and fascinating trivia; but the smooth, dulcet tones of the reporter distract me, allowing the information to slip out the back. I will attempt to collect these morsels of hard data and post them here.
If you hear something, share something. But only the facts; not subjective thoughts, loose approximations, or unprovable claims.
Link: The heat in chili peppers is not detected by birds.
A few more facts about chilies:
- If you just bite into the tip of a very hot chili pepper and not into the placenta or vein, you won’t get any heat.
- Chili peppers and bell peppers are the exact same genus and species.
- Chili pepper is used to feed flamingos in zoos to keep them pink.
- Chemicals from the peppers are put in paints to put on boats to keep barnacles from attaching to the sides.
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Link: Tomatoes from Florida have more than eight times the amount of pesticide and herbicides as do those from California.
Florida accounts for one-third of all fresh tomatoes produced in the US, and virtually all of the tomatoes raised during the fall and winter seasons. California is the number two grower.
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Link: Ettore "Hector" Boiardi was the largest importer of parmesan cheese from Italy when he started his company in 1928.
That company, of course, was Chef Boyardee.
