1.93% of American gardeners grow tomatoes in their yards.
2.China is the number one producer of tomatoes
3.Cooked tomatoes may act as a kind of internal sunscreen
4.Tomato is a fruit
5.Tomatoes originally came from Peru
6.There are around 10,000 varieties of tomatoes worldwide!
7.Scientific name for the tomato is Lycopersicon lycopersicum
8.Americans eat 22-24 pounds of tomatoes per person, per year.
9.Tomato seedlings have been grown in space before!
10.In annual festival in Spain, people throw 150,000 tomatoes at each other.
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