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 next most popular birthday months include August, July, September and January. The fewest babies were born in February while December and April were also a little slow in Australia on the baby arrival front. Even so, Australian mums did a pretty decent job of spreading out the birthday celebrations. The difference between babies born in October, the most popular month, and February, the least popular month, was less than 2500. Each month between 24,900 and 27,145 babies were born in Australia in 2012, the most recent year that the nation-wide birth data was collated.