A few things everyone should know

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Potatoes belong to the nightshade family.

There is a variety of potato called Avalanche.

There is a variety of potato called Golden Wonder (all potatoes are wonderful, though).

The Lumper potato was recently revived. It looks somewhat lumpy.

Temperatures below 4 degrees Celsius tend to convert potatoes' starch into sugar, which leads to higher acrylamide content. O_O (this isn't good, by the way)

The world dedicated 18.6 million hectares in 2010 for potato cultivation :O

Chimeras can be made by grafting tomato plants onto potato plants, producing edible tomatoes and potatoes. This is slightly disturbing.

Van Gogh painted a picture of a family eating potatoes, appropriately named "The Potato Eaters".

There are several potato museums in the world. I have made it a point to visit one sometime in the future.

Most information was taken from wikipedia with the intent of educating the general speedcubing public about potatoes.
 
Potatoes are more interesting than people usually think they are :p I didn't know about the chimaeras either until I decided to do a post about potatoes!
 
My parents are friends with a leading British potato scientist. He travels the world doing potato related science. True story.
 
I really need to get a job like that ._. where I'll be with potatoes all day long...

and that's punny!
 
Simply grafting one species of plant onto another does not make it a chimera. Chimeras have two distinct genomes. A potato grafted onto a tomato plant (or vice versa) is still just a potato plant. The grafted plant is simply getting nutrients from the host plant. This technique is quite common and is seen in some of the cacti you buy at home depot, and is commonly used with fruit/nut trees.
 
Fun facts.


Left in a dark damp place, a potato can remain alive for upwards of 80 years.

In Ireland, potatoes are so important the celebrate National Potato Day 3 times a year.

The word Potato was first recorded as being used by the Aztecs. Po (subterranean) Tato (Apple)

In his lifetime the average american man consumes 18 tonnes of potatoes.

Once a potato has rooted, and started to grow, if rolled onto its back it will self right by shifting water inside of it to one side.
 
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