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<h2>Kids Corner - 10 Facts About Potatoes!</h2>

<p>I love potatoes and did you know...</p>

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    <li>Potatoes were first eaten more than 6,000 years ago by indigenous people living in the Andes mountains of Peru./li>
    <li>The Incas measured time by how long it took for potatoes to cook.</li>
    <li>Religious leaders denounced the potato because it wasn't mentioned in the Bible.</li>
    <li>Potatoes are the world's fourth food staple - after wheat, corn and rice.</li>
    <li>Potatoes are grown in more than 125 countries (even in space - in 1995).</li>
    <li>Every year enough potatoes are grown worldwide to cover a four-lane motorway circling the world six times.</li>
    <li>China is the world's largest potatoe producer.</li>
    <li>Namibians each eat an average of 110 kilograms of potatoes every year - not quite as much as the Germans consume.</li>
    <li>In 1778 Prussia and Austria fought the Potatoe War in which each side tried to starve the other by consuming their potatoe crop.</li>
    <li>During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush of the 1890's, potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded them for gold.</li>
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<p><i>-The Other Book</i></p>