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.
A heat graph, which corresponds the number of births on any given day to light and dark squares, effectively shows how American birthdays rate against each other. Using Harvard University data, the graph shows September 16 as the most common birthday in the U.S., while December 25 and February 29 are the least common. The heat graph, while telling you how popular your birthday is, also successfully tracks trends in the data.