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Article: HOG-WILD OVER CORN.(facts about corn)
- Article from:
- Ranger Rick
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
- Author:
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Feeling corn-fused? Here's an earful of cool corny facts!
It may not look like it, but corn really comes from a kind of grass! Scientists aren't sure what the first corn was like, but it may have been a tiny ear less than an inch (2.5 cm) long. Over many years, people learned to grow corn with bigger and bigger ears. Now, an ear of corn may be ten inches (25 cm) long.
FIRST CORN
No one is sure who first planted corn. But scientists have found 5000- year-old cobs and kernels. They were in a Mexican cave where people lived long ago. Guess what--those people were growing popcorn!
KINDS OF CORN
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