Of all the words Dr. Seuss made up in his storybooks, only one has stuck in the English vocabulary: grinch, which is refers to a killjoy -- and it took more than 20 years.

One acre of wheat can produce enough bread to feed a family of four people for about ten years.

Soil that is heated by geysers are now making it possible to produce bananas in Iceland.

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