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).

Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.

Cranberries can be tested for ripeness by bouncing them, if they are ripe they should have a bouncing quality.

AMAZING FACTS