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Here's a photo of one growing:

Yep, the [colour of an olive](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/green-black-olives_us_56e9a34ee4b0860f99db4d6e) is related to how ripe it was when picked.

Crème fraîche has always been used as a food.

Red bell peppers [are fully ripened](https://web.archive.org/web/20030103193545/http://www.cdc.gov/NCCDPHP/DNPA/5ADay/month/bell_pepper.htm), whereas green bell peppers have been harvested early. The more you know.

Nope, this is a common myth. Father Christmas was depicted with his traditional red suit and white beard long before [Coca-Cola burst onto the scene](http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/is-it-true-santa-is-red-because-of-coca-cola).

Nope, I completely made this one up. Sorry.

Dog food testing is a [_real_ job](https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jan/05/from-dog-food-taster-to-eel-ecologist-six-jobs-that-are-surprisingly-enjoyable) that _real_ humans, like you or I, actually do.

Only about 20% of a [potato is solid](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4573964/).

It turns out strawberries have been catfishing us this whole time. They're actually something called [an aggregate fruit](https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html).

It was [created in 1962](http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/07/14/14706791.html) by Sam Panopoulos at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.

They were first [marketed in the 1980s](http://americanhistory.si.edu/food/new-and-improved/ready-eat-carrots) as a way to sell shaven-down, imperfect carrots that would otherwise have been discarded.

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