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.
If you live in America, it more than likely is! As it turns out, Sept. 16 is the most common birthday in America. The New York Times published a long table graph in 2006 that ranked every day of the year with how many babies are born on that day. The graph included all the babies born from 1973 to 1999, a huge sample size that was collected by a Harvard economist named Amitabh Chandra. This collection showed that Sept. 16 was the most common, with Feb. 29 being the least common, since itâs a leap day, and with second most uncommon being New Yearâs Day.