do you know

• 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water. Cucumber skin is its most nutritious part

• Rice paper isn’t made from rice but from a small tree which grows in Taiwan.

• Trees get about 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide, etc), and only about 10% from the soil.

• The averaged size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,000 pencils.

• The world’s tallest tree is a Sequoia (or California Redwood) in California; it is more than 360 feet tall.

• The world’s oldest living tree is thought to be in Sweden. Its root system has been growing for 9,550 years. Now that’s old!

• An average size tree produces enough oxygen in one year to keep a family of four breathing.

• A method used to verify the age of a tree is to count the rings in the tree’s trunk.

• A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers. The word 'banan' is Arabic for finger.

• The very first type of aspirin, or pain killer and fever reducer came from the tree bark of the willow tree.

• Apples, not caffeine or tea , are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

• Chocolate is a food made from cacao beans.

• Mango is called king of the fruits.