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Farmers grow corn on every continent except Antarctica.<br><br>Each tassel on a corn plant releases as many as 5 million grains of pollen.<br><br>One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop.<br><br>There are about 600 kernels on each ear of corn.<br><br>A bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 32 pounds of chicken, or 28 pounds of catfish.<br><br>The corn cob (ear) is actually part of the corn plant’s flower.<br><br>The main ingredient in most dry pet food is corn.<br><br>Pioneers planted 4 corn kernels for every plant they hoped to harvest: "1 for the maggot, 1 for the crow, 1 for the cutworm, and 1 to grow".<br><br>The corn plant has both male and female parts. The silk is the female part while the tassel is the male part.<br><br>Sorbitol, produced from the corn sugar dextrose, is used in toothpaste as a low-calorie, water soluble bulking agent.<br>
