The majority of garlic (90%) grown in the United States comes from California.
All varieties of garlic (and there over 450) are members of the Lily family.
The mature garlic plant produces a bulb, sometimes called a head of garlic, with numerous individual cloves inside the paper-like wrapper.
Garlic paste was used extensively and successfully in The Second World War for its antibiotic and antiseptic qualities.
Horses are traditionally measured in 'hands', this was originally the width of a man's hand and has been set at 4 inches.
A female horse is called a 'filly'.
Horses generally dislike the smell of pigs
A horse's teeth can be used to estimate its age
A horse is described as a 'foal' for its first year of life
A horse has approximately 205 bones
The left side of a horse is called the 'near side' and the right side is the 'off side'
No two horses are identical
A zedonk is the offspring of a zebra and a donkey
Horses began to evolve on the American continent over 60 million years ago, they later died out and were reintroduced by Spanish settlers
All horses (including zebras) belong to the genus equus
A horse's heart weighs nine pounds
Horses sleep longer in the summer than in the winter
Horses lie down only about 43.5 minutes a day
Horses younger than 4 years can concentrate for a maximum of 10-15 minutes
A horse typically sleeps two and half to three hours a day
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