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SWEET POTATOES vs YAMS • Sweet potatoes are a member of the morning glory family, a vine. Potatoes are a member of the nightshade family, which is not a vine.

Yams are from an African tropical vine that isn’t related to either the sweet potato or the potato but is related to lilies and grasses. Sweet potatoes have orange, red, or yellow skin and pale yellow flesh. True yams have a black or brown skin that looks like bark, and either white, purple, or red flesh.

CARROTS AND EYESIGHT • It’s true that a vitamin A deficiency can cause blindness and that carrots contain vitamin A. But eating carrots won’t even begin to affect your eyesight unless your eyesight is bad specifically because of a vitamin A deficiency.

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Is this new? Is there a correct way to ask why the change? Believe me, this exam is not one I look forward to, but with a family history of prostate cancer and other cancers, the bloodwork I get each year alone does not seem to be enough. -Anon.

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VEGGIE FACTS & FIGURES Onions make you cry because they are full of sulfuric chemicals, which irritate your tear ducts. Sulfur is the same gas which is produced by volcanoes when they erupt.

Yam comes from the African word “njam” meaning “to eat.”

The old French word “caboche” meaning “head” gave us our head of cabbage. Cabbage is one of the most nutritious vegetables, high in anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds.

Corn is a member of the grass family. Each ear has an average of 800 kernels.

Cool as a cucumber? The inside of a cucumber can be 20 degrees cooler than the outside of a cucumber.

Asparagus spears can grow an inch a day in warm weather.

California grows 90% of the U.S. avocado crop.

Ripe red bell peppers contain twice as much vitamin C by weight as citrus fruits.

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• The original eggplant had a small white fruit that looked like an egg. The large purple eggplants are in the same family and bear the same name.

• The average American eats about 126 lbs. (57 kg) of potatoes annually.

• Romaine lettuce has more nutrients than any other kind of lettuce. The darker the leaf, the more nutritious the lettuce.

• Coconut is actually a fruit.

• Before the days of refrigerated trucks, loads of lettuce would be heaped with mounds of ice to preserve them while being shipped, hence the name “iceberg” lettuce.

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I had a normal MRI. It used to happen twice a week, then dwindled to monthly. Lately, I have it pretty much under control. I wonder if there is some diagnosis out there for me. I hope you have an answer. It would make me feel like less of an idiot! -- J.N. ANSWER: I don’t think you are an idiot at all, and I do think I know the cause of these episodes. You have a pretty severe case of nocturnal myoclonus (which sounds like I know what I am talking about, but it just means muscle jerks at nighttime). These are very common and usually are normal, but are sometimes associated with epilepsy. Since yours aren’t getting worse over time and you haven’t had seizures, you are almost certain to have the “physiologic” type.

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VEGGIE FACTS & FIGURES • Sweet potatoes have more vitamin A than any other vegetable. The cantaloupe is higher in FACTS (cont’d) vitamin AFRUIT than any other fruit.

Worldwide, are the most popular •• In the 1960s mangoes at Chicago’s Ambassador East fruit. In the U.S., bananas are top, followed by Hotel, a major bash was held, during which apples, watermelon, and oranges. one of the local celebrities was served a Bloody • Mary Until the mid-1800s thestick most to popular, with no swizzle stir it cheapest, with. He and most widely available beverage (besides grabbed a celery stick from a vegetable tray water) was apple cider. and used that to stir his drink instead, leading • Today the most popular juice is orange juice. to a new fad.

1. Name the most visited theme park in all of • Strawberries are a member of the rose family.

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The scam involved Nigerian oil wherein the perp California themewho’d claimedAtosecond be a Shell Oil heir,Disney an oil expert park,$500 California already sunk million Adventure, of his trust fund into the venture.

Investors’ dollars would toward opened in 2001 on the sitego that had the purchase of an oil refinery in the Bahamas, functioned as Disneyland’s parking where the crude oil would be shipped. Among the lot for over 40 to years. charges were conspiracy commit wire fraud, wire fraud, passing a fictitious financial instrument, lying to the feds and failure to file incometax returns. Oh, and he also submitted false claims to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Wayraking CorriganinDay Why, July one17 wonders, ifWrong he was all that July 18 Chrysanthemum Day dough, did he also insist on defrauding the VA? July 19 Flitch Day Part of the multi-agency suit against him was for July 20 National Lollipop Day claiming service-related injury, which got him July 21 Get to Know Your Customers Day “decades” totaling July 22worth of disability Spoonerismbenefits Day thousands of dollars per month.

July 23 National Day of the Cowboy How was he injured? He hurt his knee playing basketball in 1970 and was given a medical discharge. Apparently he claimed benefits for his knee all these years, saying he couldn’t work.

Which begs the question: How is it that he could claim benefits for so many years without anyone checking? Without even being brought in for an TOMORROWLAND examination or X-rays? Wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that a basketball injury might get better in a few years?

3.would What istake the of thecelery transportation system •• ItNectarines over 300 sticks equal arename a member of the roseto family. throughout Disneyland? the average human’s daily ration of calories.

Only one gene separates a nectarine from a 4. What ride beings in Space Port where guests peach: fuzziness • Artichokes are one ofgene. the oldest foods known boardthe a rocket?

5. W here would a visitor find “Mr. Toad’s Wild • to One type of Mexican weigh to humans.

Marilyn papaya Monroecanwas the upfirst Ride” and “Peter Pan’s Flight”? ten pounds (4.5 kg). official California Artichoke Queen in 1947.

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• Watermelon SPINACH flesh is 97%MYTH water.

•WORD In the ORIGINS 1930s a scientist studying the mineral of were spinach accidentally misplaced • properties Tangerines named after the city ofa “What youngster has not dreamed of decimal point, leading researchers to believe Tangiers, Morocco, which was well known for flying with Peter Pan over moonlit that there was ten times as much iron in spinach the fruit.

London, or tumbling into Alice’s thereSanskrit actually is. The“naranga” myth that meaning spinach • asThe word nonsensical Wonderland?” is extraordinarily high ofinthe iron stillorange. survives. “fragrant” is the origin word -- Walt Disney Spinach has iron, but many foods, including • Spanish explorers looked at pineapples and soy beans, beets, beans, lentils, thought theypeas, looked likelima pinecones, giving liver, molasses, oysters, apricots, walnuts, and them their name. seeds missionaries have more. first In order to get • sunflower When Christian encountered David Hasselhoff 7/17/52 your of iron from they spinach alone, a newrequirement plant in South America, looked at Vin Diesel 7/18/67 you’d have and to eat yourcrown body weight of the flower sawtwice Christ’s of thorns Vikki Carr inside it. So they named it the passion fruit.idea the stuff yearly.

This would be7/19/41 a bad Carlos Santana 7/20/47 spinach contains acid, and • because Grapefruit grow also in Jon clusters likeoxalic grapes.

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• Horses can gallop at about 27 mph (44 kph) but the fastest recorded horse sprinted at 55 mph Did you hear about the family who got stuck (88 kph). on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours?

• AApparently, their vehicle would neverhorse cannot vomit. never land.

• The teeth of a horse show the animal’s age.

When the owner of a horse for sale says it’s a young animal, the buyer is wise to inspect the teeth in order to get that information “straight from the horse’s mouth.”

• When horses are “rough-shod” they have shoes which have the ends of the nails sticking out.

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HORSES (cont’d) • Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, was friends with Sir Charles Bunbury. Both fellows enjoyed breeding horses. Together the two gentlemen founded a new horse race- a one mile springtime test of 3-year-old Thoroughbreds.

However, before the first race could be held, it needed to be named. Which founder should the race be named after? There was only one way to settle the dispute. They flipped a coin, and that is why every spring we enjoy a derby instead of a bunbury. As consolation, Bunbury’s horse won the first derby.

• The famous racehorse Man o’ War was the first animal whose obituary and biography appeared in the list of celebrities compiled by major press associations.

• Moifaa was a well-known racehorse in the early part of this century. In 1904 the ship that was bringing him from New Zealand to England was sunk in a storm. Moifaa nearly drowned, but washed up still alive on an island. He wandered around the island for two weeks before he was rescued. He was sent to England and entered in the Grand National Steeplechase against 25 other horses. He won.

• Bing Aman and Mart Jordan were two race horses who finished in a dead heat at the Gravesend Race Track in New York in 1873.

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• Gardening columnist Mike Klingman decided to see whose fertilizer was the best for tomatoes. He collected manure from all horses that finished on top in the Preakness Stakes and planted seedlings in the individually fertilized soil. The biggest tomatoes were grown in soil fertilized by a local nag who had never even seen the racetrack.

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grams of fat, making it 22% fat. A banana has only 0.6 grams of fat.

Olives are another fatty fruit. Ten black olives have about 50 calories and 4 grams of fat.

Oranges will not ripen after being picked, but lemons will.

True cantaloupes only grow in Europe. The American version is actually a muskmelon.

Same family, same genus, different species.

Cantaloupe were named after the town which was named after the Cantaluppi Castle in Italy.

Cantaloupes are rarely exported and very difficult to find in the U.S. Papayas contain an enzyme called papain which is commonly used in meat tenderizers.

Dates are not a dried fruit; they look that way when they’re fresh.

The most popular berry in the U.S. is the strawberry. Blueberry comes in second.

Cranberries only grow in swampy bogs. Some cranberry beds will produce fruit for more than a century.

Every raspberry is really a conglomeration of hundreds of tiny individual fruits, each one containing a seed.

Blueberries contain more antioxidants per serving than any other fruit or vegetable, according to the USDA. More blueberries are grown in the state of Maine than anywhere else in the world. Blueberries are one of the few foods that are naturally blue in color.

Grapes are one of the oldest cultivated fruits and there are more varieties of grape produced in the world than any other fruit.

Pound for pound, the cherry contains the highest concentration of sugars. (cont’d)

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• Until the mid-1800s the most popular, cheapest, and most widely available beverage (besides water) was apple cider.

• Today the most popular juice is orange juice.

• Strawberries are a member of the rose family.

Americans eat about five pounds per year on average.

• The only fruit with green flesh? Kiwi fruit.

10:54 PM • Nectarines are a member of the rose family.

Only one gene separates a nectarine from a peach: the fuzziness gene.

• One type of Mexican papaya can weigh up to ten pounds (4.5 kg).

• On an apple tree, it takes the energy from 50 leaves to support the production of a single apple.

• Watermelon flesh is 97% water.

WORD ORIGINS • Tangerines were named after the city of Tangiers, Morocco, which was well known for the fruit.

• The Sanskrit word “naranga” meaning “fragrant” is the origin of the word orange.

• Spanish explorers looked at pineapples and thought they looked like pinecones, giving them their name.

• When Christian missionaries first encountered a new plant in South America, they looked at the flower and saw Christ’s crown of thorns inside it. So they named it the passion fruit.

• Grapefruit grow in clusters like grapes.

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SPORTS QUIZ Answers 1. Philadelphia’s Chase Utley, in 2008.

2. Bill Hands won 20 in 1969.

3. It was 1941. Penn State was 38-0-1 during the 74 years in between.

4. Alvin Williams (2000-01 and 2002-03 seasons).

5. It was 1993.

6. Harry Gant, in 1991.

7. It was 2004 (Jennifer Capriati and Venus and Serena Williams).

HOCUS FOCUS Differences

1 Glasses are missing. 2 Umbrella is missing.

3 Arm is moved 4 Tarp is missing. 5 Chest protector is different. 6 Mask is missing.

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AUGUST FACT OR FICTION ANSWERS

1) Fact, 2) Fiction, there are 31 days in August, 3) Fiction, August is one of the hottest months in the United States, 4) Fiction, 5) Fact, 6) Fact, 7) Fiction, most are olive green, 8) Fact, 9) Fact, 10) Fact