1. Studies have also suggested that grapes are effective against heart attacks, asthma, migraines, indigestion, kidney disease and fatigue.
2. Botanically, grapes are not fruit but berries.
3. There are about 60 species of grapes which divide into over 8,000 varieties.
4. The official world record for eating grapes is eight pounds, 15 ounces in 10 minutes.
5. This was set in 2005 by Cookie Jarvis of New York who was also world ice cream eating champion.
6. Grape-growing is the world’s largest food-based industry.
7. On average one acre of grapes can produce about 15,000 glasses of wine.
8. John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes Of Wrath took its title from a line in the Battle Hymn Of The Republic: “He [the Lord] is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”
9. A 1996 book about hangovers was called The Wrath Of Grapes.
10. “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” (Galileo, 1632).
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