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Bananas are the top selling fruit in the U.S. Americans eat more bananas each year than apples and oranges combined. Come along with Tidbits as we discover why!

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• 32% of a banana is the peel. Of the fruit, 75% is water, 21% sugar, and only 4% is protein, fiber, and starch. There are about 110 calories in one medium banana.

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• A banana has four times as much protein as an apple, plus twice the carbohydrates, three times the phosphorus, and five times the vitamin A and iron. Bananas are high in potassium, vitamin C, and dietary fiber. It’s the only fruit that contains the amino acid tryptophan, which is also found in turkey and tends to make people sleepy. It’s one of the few fruits that contain vitamin B6. Bananas have little fat and no cholesterol.

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• Americans eat almost 30 lbs. of bananas per person per year, averaging about 1.5 bananas per week. That’s nine pounds more than the annual consumption of apples, which are the second most popular fruit.

• Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.

• About 60% of the world’s production of bananas is consumed in the U.S. • Except for a small crop from Hawaii, the entire American supply of bananas is imported, nearly all coming from countries in the Caribbean. A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten.

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• Bananas were first imported to the U.S. in 1804 when a ship brought 30 stalks to New York from Cuba. They were introduced to the public at the Philadelphia Centennial Expo in 1876 and sold for 10 cents each, equal to $10 today. A guard posted next to a living banana plant prevented people from breaking bits off as souvenirs.

• Within just 20 short years at the end of the 1800s, bananas went from being a novelty item to surpassing apples as America’s best selling fruit, in spite of the fact that bananas rot easily and must be shipped thousands of miles, whereas apples grow very near most of the cities in the U.S. ...continued

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BANANA HISTORY (cont'd) • One reason for the banana’s skyrocketing popularity is that they are available year-round because they are harvested constantly. Nearly all other fruits are seasonal.

• In 1905, writer O. Henry authored a book called “Cabbages and Kings” which takes place in a mythical country in Central America called Anchuria. In the book, he coined the term ‘banana republic.’ During the 1930s, this term became common, denoting unstable countries whose economy is dependent upon a single resource which is controlled by plutocrats.

• By the early 1900s, the banana business was booming in Caribbean countries. However, there were problems. Although bananas and coffee often accounted for 80% of the exports, the economic benefits were limited to members of • During World War I, many ships belonging to the governments and the corporate owners. Little revenue fruit companies which had been used to haul bawent to the country where the fruit was grown. Further- nanas were conscripted by the Navy for use in more, workers spent their wages in company stores, whose the war instead. The banana trade was strangled supplies were imported rather than being purchased locally. because there was no way to get bananas to market. The popularity of the fruit rebounded after the war ended, but the same thing happened during World War II when banana boats were once again conscripted for military use.

• The song “Yes We Have No Bananas” was written in 1923 in response to frequent banana shortages caused by blight, hurricanes, and wars.

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• The invention of steamships, railroads, interstate highways, and refrigeration all spurred the popularity of bananas because they made it possible to get the fruit to market before it spoiled.

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Dragonflies, mayflies, fireflies, and butterflies are not Then in a flash the fly moves in and deposits flies. Gnats, mosquitoes, and midges are flies. the eggs on the bottom of the caterpillar’s foot, • Flies have hearts. where they cannot be reached.

• The feet of a fly exude a sticky substance which helps it walk on slick surfaces and upside-down. The sticky • The fairy fly is the smallest insect at 1/100th inch.

It can crawl through the eye of a small needle. feet also pick up germs, which is why flies spread so much disease. The average fly carries between one and • In a cave called Waitomo Cavern in New Zealand there lives a fly that's about twice as big as a six million bacteria. mosquito. Its scientific name is Arachnocampa • The housefly is quite close to being the average size anluminosa. It clings to the roof of the cave imal for the entire animal kingdom, exactly midway beover an underground river and trails in the tween the one-celled protozoa and the blue whale. air a series of sticky threads of mucus • Flies are loners. They may feed and breed at the four or five feet long. Under its tail is a same carrion, but there is never any social interaclight-emitting organ which lights up the tion between them. shimmering mucus strands. Any insects in the cave are attracted to the light. They stick • Male flies have been observed waiting patiently next to to the thread and are hauled in and eaten by the the pupa of female flies, waiting for mates to hatch. fly. With several thousand flies all lighting up • When an adult hatches out from the pupa, it has achieved their shimmering threads, the sight is eerie and its final form. Small flies do not grow into large flies. unforgettable.

• Utah’s Great Salt Lake is famous for its outbreaks of brine flies, sometimes numbering 370 million per mile • Ancient Roman poet Virgil once held a grand funeral for a dead fly, including pallbearers and of shoreline. eulogies. Land used as a cemetery was exempt • One kind of fly lives both underwater and above wafrom taxes, so by burying a dead fly on his propter near seaweed beds. However, this fly has a strange erty, Virgil was able to make it tax-exempt. fixation on the smell of dry cleaning fluids and will frequently congregate at cleaning establishments in such • Renaissance painter Giotto was studying under Giovanni Cimabue when he secretly painted a fly numbers that they become a nuisance. on the nose of a figure in one of Cimabue's paint• The mouthparts of a horsefly are strong enough to pierce ings. So realistic was the fly that when Cimabue leather. returned to complete the picture, he tried repeat• William Buckland, British geologist, was known to edly to brush the fly away. Only then did he realsample every living thing he came across. He once deize he was a victim of Giotto's practical joke. clared that the mole was the nastiest thing he ever tast- • Scientists have been completely unable to train a ed, but later passed the award to blue bottle flies. fly to press a lever in order to receive the reward

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CONTROLLING MOSQUITOES IN URBAN & RURAL AREAS

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Mosquito control is very expensive. Most small communities can’t afford a comprehensive mosquito program. So, trying to achieve successful mosquito control on a single farmyard or rural home is almost impossible. The cost per household would be too expensive for most. However, by taking a few simple steps, you may be able to reclaim your back yard. Here are four simple steps that will help reduce the mosquito population on your property in both rural and urban areas:

#1: Eliminate Breeding Habitat

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Mosquitoes can reproduce anyplace that water collects and remains for as little as one week.

By eliminating standing water on your property, you can prevent mosquitoes from reproducing.

Inspect your property weekly for any signs of standing water or water holding containers. If you have a rain barrel used for collecting rainwater, make sure it is completely sealed to prevent mosquitoes from gaining access to the water. If you have a low spot in your yard where water accumulates and remains for several days after a rain, fill it in or consider planting a water tolerant tree or shrub to soak up the water. Develop a property checklist and get your children or grandchildren involved with weekly inspections. Assign the responsibility to the kids. They’ll love it! It also gives them ownership in the success of reducing the mosquito population.

Wear protective clothing to cover exposed skin. Apply an effective insect repellent. The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention recommends repellents that contain DEET. There are several new repellents on the market that go on dry.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, DEET is not recommended for children under 2 months old. Always follow the label directions when applying insect repellents.

#2: Make Your Property Undesirable for Mosquitoes The first step to making your property undesirable for mosquitoes is to eliminate breeding habitat. Then, learn a little bit about the biology of the mosquitoes in your region. The majority of the mosquitoes in the Grand Forks region are night biters. However, if kicked up during the day in shaded areas, you can expect to be bitten. They generally seek out their blood meals around sunset and may stay active until midnight. Once the temperature starts rising, they head for cover. During hot sunny days, mosquitoes look for cool, shaded, moist, areas to rest. Tall grass, weeds, and shrubbery provide ideal resting places during the day. If the tall grass, weeds, and shrubs are by your backyard deck, then you’ve pretty much invited the mosquitoes to your evening barbeque. By keeping your grass and weeds cut short and shrubbery trimmed, you’ll reduce the resting sites for mosquitoes.

#4: Apply Barrier Treatments Mosquito barrier treatments are products designed to repel or kill mosquitoes on contact. Many professional mosquito control programs use these products to get instant results in controlling mosquitoes in a selected area. Permethrin is a common active ingredient in these products. Barrier treatments are residual products, meaning they’ll continue working for an extended amount of time (1-3 weeks). When applying these products, try to spray areas that remain shaded during the day. The shaded areas are where the mosquitoes choose to rest during the day.

Treating the shaded areas may also extend the effectiveness of the product. The active ingredient in these products break down rapidly from Ultra Violet sunlight. These products can usually be purchased from local retail stores and can be applied by the homeowner. Always read and follow the label directions when working with any chemicals.

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• On Sept. 4, 476 A.D., Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer, a German barbarian, who proclaims himself king of Italy. Although Roman rule continued in the East, it marked the end of the original Roman Empire.

• On Aug. 29, 1533, Atahuallpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Spanish conquistadors. The execution of the last free reigning emperor ended 300 years of Inca civilization.

• On Aug. 31, 1897, Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph, which used celluloid film. In 1898, Edison sued Biograph Pictures, claiming patent infringement. However, in 1902, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Edison only owned rights to the sprocket system that moved perforated film through the camera.

• On Sept. 2, 1959, Henry Ford II introduces his company's newest car, the Falcon. The compact car was an overnight success. In just one day, dealers had snapped up every one of the 97,000 cars in the first production run.

• On Aug. 30, 1967, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would serve for 24 years before retiring for health reasons, leaving a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual.

• On Sept. 3, 1982, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's US Festival opens in San Bernardino, California. Entertainment included The Police, The Kinks and Fleetwood Mac, along with games for the Atari Video Computer System.

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• Hull strawberries quickly by pushing a straw through from the tip to the stem.

• Ice cream will stay soft and scoopable if you put it in a zipper-top, freezer-safe storage bag before you tuck it away in the freezer.

• Taco Tuesdays made easy: “Flip a muffin tin over so that the wells of the tin are poking up. Set your hard taco shells in between the wells to hold them up while you are filling them.

You could even make a bunch of tacos this way and bring them to the table already made! Fun stuff.” — J.D. in Oregon • “To make sure you don’t get any slipped stitches when you are interrupted while knitting or crocheting, just clip the work at the needle with a clothespin. It stays put, and you can pick it right back up after you are done taking a break.” — C.C. in Arkansas • If you love coffee, you’ll extra-love this tip: Freeze leftover hot coffee that has been slightly cooled. Then, use the ice cubes to cool down a piping hot cup, as a base for coffee milkshakes and in iced coffee drinks so they will not water down.

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NUGGET OF KNOWLEDGE Doreen Nowlan of Massachusetts was listening to the radio in 1984 when she heard a used car salesman named Crazy Carlo announce he had a car for sale for "999 bananas." Doreen took him at his word and showed up with a load of 999 bananas.

Crazy Carlo honored his promise. She drove off with a car worth about $2,000. The Salvation Army got the bananas, worth about $120. And the dealership got nationwide publicity, worth millions.

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• Charles Kettering was researching improvements in the gasoline engine in 1912 when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow.

He was trying to eliminate the "knock" in the engine, caused when gas takes too long to burn in the cylinder, reducing efficiency. How could he get the gas to burn earlier? He started thinking of things that happen early. He thought of the trailing arbutus, a plant which blooms early. It has red leaves. Kettering thought the red color made the arbutus bloom early. He figured if gas was red, maybe it too would be affected and would burn early. Red dye was what he needed, but he didn't have any red dye. However, he did have iodine. He poured iodine in the gas. The knocking stopped. The following week, he poured red dye in the gas. The knocking started again. He decided it wasn't the red color— it was substances in the iodine. He had made the first important strides in developing the no-knock engine.

• In 1903 French chemist Benedictus was working in his lab when he accidentally knocked a glass flask to the floor. He heard it shatter, but when he examined it he found all the glass fragments had hung together. Questioning his assistant, he discovered the flask had once held a solution of cellulose nitrate, which is a liquid plastic. The solution had evaporated, and the assistant, thinking the flask was clean enough, had not washed it out before returning it to the laboratory shelf.

Only a few days later, Benedictus read an article in a Paris newspaper that mentioned a recent rash of automobile accidents. The article said most of the drivers had been seriously injured by shattered glass. Remembering the broken flask, Benedictus rushed to his lab, and within the next 24 hours had invented safety glass. ...continued

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• After French inventor Benedictus developed safety glass, he was dismayed to find automobile manufacturers uninterested in the develAnswer: Dell. opment because they felt auto safety was the A VERY LARGE NUMBER responsibility of the driver, not the manufac•turer.

Edward was a War mathematician.

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A cartoon strip character named was very Milton chose bing andBarney re-painting the popular. rusty metal deck, alBarney’s last name for the number. ways a tedious and time-consuming chore.

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Sixty It years later,allLarry and Sergey spread over Page the deck.

In the Brin days developedthe a new search Other following spill,internet he noticed thatengine. the rust that search engines searched each webpage and had been relentlessly creeping across the deck ranked them according to how many times a stopped the fish oil had spilled.

Heand respecificwhere term appeared on them, but Page membered this fact throughout his long career Brin designed their search engine to search for asthe a sea captain. specific term and then find out how many links there were that Orleans, led back he to that page, • After settling in New frequently which resulted in a better search engine. experimented with fish oil-based paints. The •problem They decided neededterrible a name that was that they smelled and took reflected how many websites the search forever to dry. When Fergusson was 42 years engine wasputsearching. took old, he was in charge They of a fleet of the shipsname durof Edward Kasner’s very large number, only ing World War I. Taking the opportunity to do they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being further fishway oil, he hit spelledexperiments exactly thewith same thefinally cartoon oncharacter a formula that smelled better, dried fast, and Barney spelled his last name. What’s stopped rust overnight. it called?

(Answer at bottom of page) COMPUTER • After the war, he foundedFACTS a paint company in which quite company’s •1921, In 1981 Bill did Gates said,well.

“640The kb of memory name it’s a worldwide oughtistoRust-Oleum. be enough forToday anybody.” in protective and coatings for both •leader Moore’s Law statespaints that computer performance home and industry, and still offers the famous doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since rust-fighting that started it all back 1971, this hasformula been true.

1921.

The company’s motto, ‘Rust Never •inHP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all Sleeps,’ was borrowed by singer Neil Young as started in garages. the nameGoogle, of his 1979 album.

Answer: from googol.

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