• Twitter's bird logo is named Larry, after Boston Celtics Hall of Famer, Larry Bird.
• When Oreo cookies were first made, they were mounded-shaped. The name came from the Greek word "oreo" which means "hill".
• It cost $1 for admission to Disneyland when it opened in 1955. 
• The first minimun wage, instituted  in the United States in 1938, was 25 cents per hour.
• Home plate in baseball was square until 1900, when it was made five-sided to help umpires in calling balls and strikes.
• Edgar Allen Poe often wrote his works with his cat seated on his shoulder. 
• Slugs have four noses.
• Beef fat, called tallow, is an ingredient in soaps, cosmetics, candles, shortenings, and chewing gum.
• An acre of land is about the same size as a football field.
• Raising cattle is the single largest segment of American agriculture.
• One pound of wool can make 10 miles of yarn.
• Sea otters hold each other's paws when they sleep so they don't drift apart.
• The average supermarket carrot travels 2,000 miles from field to table. USDA surveys suggest that most farmer's market produce travels less than 50 miles to market. 
• The USDA estimates that more than one million customer's visit farmer's markets each week.
• The first time that fairgoers ate hot dogs and ice cream as they walked along the midway was during the Saint Louis World's Fair in 1904, thus coining these two foods as the world's first "fast foods."
• Florida ranks 2nd in US production of fresh vegetables and provides 80% of the fresh vegetables consumed in the US during January, February, and March each year.
• Florida ranks 4th in the Southeast and 12th nationally in the production of beef calves.
• Cattle were first introduced to North America in Florida in 1521 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon.
• The average farm size in Florida is 195 acres. 
• Florida has 47,500 farms consisting of 9.25 million acres. 
• If all the boxes of Florida tomatoes shipped in a crop year were laid end to end, they would stretch from Pensacola round-trip to Beijing, China - over 58 million boxes! 
• The state flower of Florida is the orange blossom.

Taken from In the Field Magazine