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 The word "rice" in Chinese also means "food". (1)
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 There are over 40,000 different types of rice. (1)
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 Rice is produced on every continent except for Antarctica. (1)
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 When you cook rice, it weighs 3 times its original weight. (1)
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 Around 96% of rice eaten was produced in that same area. (1)
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 90% of rice is produced in Asia. (2)
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 Rice covers more than 500 million hectares of land. (2)
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 People have been farming rice for over 10,000 years. (2)
- Rice Paper is not made from rice! (3)
(Information from http://www.riceassociation.org.uk/factsandfigures.htm (1) and http://www.omap.org/resources.html (2) and “Rice” http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0841790.html (3))
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