Tips for Washing Produce. Keep in mind that produce is a raw product, grown in dirt, which is handled by lots of people before it ever gets into your kitchen. Bacteria can be transferred from dirt residue, or from any of the people handling the produce before and after it arrives in the supermarket. To ensure the safety of your produce, including organic produce, it's important to wash it well, using proper technique, experts say.
Devlin explains: The birthday problem asks how many people you need to have at a party so that there is a better-than-even chance that two of them will share the same birthday. Most people think the answer is 183, the smallest whole number larger than 365/2. In fact, you need just 23.
The most common birthday in the United States is September 16. All of the top 10 most common birthdays are in September, and birth rates are very high from September 8 until October 2. Birth rates in general are much higher from June until mid-October. January has much fewer births than other months, even compared to the fewer number of births in December and February.