potato, n.Trivia

a potato's nutrients are mostly in its skin

Pringles aren't actually potato chips; they're compressed dehydrated potato flakes

Potatoes have been eaten for 7000 years.

Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).

Potatoes have almost all the nutrients that humans need to survive. To prove this, the executive director from the Washington State Potato Commission, ate nothing but potatoes for 60 days and was just fine.

Potatoes are nutritious because of the skin --- that's where most of the vitamins are

McDonald's uses a lot of potatoes --- Roughly 7% of all potatoes grown in the United States become McDonald's fries.

Potatoes are not caloric. You have to eat 11 pounds of potatoes to put on one pound of weight

To grow potatoes, you have to plant actual potatoes, not seeds.

Ancient Veggies Were Small, Unpalatable. Ancient tomatoes were the size of berries; potatoes were no bigger than peanuts. Corn was a wild grass, its tooth-cracking kernels borne in clusters as small as pencil erasers

The potato was popularized in France largely by one man who placed guards around his potato field and instructed them to "accept any and all bribes from civilians".

Potatoes and onions shouldn't be stored together because onions emit ethylene gas that spoils potatoes.

The potato is the first vegetable to be grown in space

Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.