Master of Memory: Accelerated learning, education, memorization - MMem 0520: Anti-trivia: Agricultural foods by global production

Episode Date: March 4, 2016

This “anti-trivia” episode lists the most eaten agricultural foods in the world and how they’re good for the body, along with supplements as the Patriot Power Greens that many people purchase online to keep a natural and healthy body. . (Rice is NOT number one!) What do you want to learn? Leave your question at http://MasterOfMemory.com/. Music […]

Master of Memory 520. Welcome to Master of Memory. I'm Timothy, and I'm here to answer your accelerated learning questions every day, and to inspire and empower you to learn anything you want to learn faster than ever. Today it's our last anti-trivia episode for the current run of anti-trivia episodes, and today's trivia fact that we're going to base the episode on is the fact that Egypt is the world's number one producer of rice. Now, that's an interesting fact to know if you're particularly interested in rice, but looking at it in more perspective, you know, what is it that

makes rice in particular important? Some people might say, well, isn't rice one of the most eaten foods in the world? But that's actually, well, isn't rice one of the most eaten foods in the world? But that's actually, well, I mean, that's true, but it's not the number one. So let's look at the number one most eaten agricultural foods or staples worldwide. Number one is maize or corn, basically. So we have corn and everything related to that at 873 million metric tons per year worldwide. Second is rice at 738 million metric tons worldwide per year. Then we have wheat, which maybe we eat more of in the United States, at 671 million. Next we have potatoes at 365 million. And isn't that interesting that we

eat more wheat than potatoes worldwide? And about not only that, but about twice as much wheat as potatoes. Then we have cassava at 269 million. And what the nonsense is cassava anyway? Well, it's a root somewhat like a potato, and it's native to South America. So this is just an interesting little thing that is eaten more than a lot of the other staples that we're going to list, and actually the rest of the staples that we're going to list next, including soybeans at 241 million, sweet potatoes at 108 million, that's about a third, about between half and a third as many as cassava, yams at 60 million, much further down, and then sorghum at 57 million, and the plantain at 37 million. There are so many enlightening things about this list, about what people are actually eating, with the cassava so much higher than sweet potatoes, and soybeans so much lower

than cassava, and things like that. It's just really interesting to see what people are eating around the world. The fact that corn is first, rice is second, and potatoes are so much further down. But then the fact that sorghum makes the list also reminds us of how different, you know, different cultures are and what they eat. It's not just grains and starchy roots. This anti-trivia series has been very fun for me to produce, and I'd be happy to get more requests for episodes like these in the future. We're back to our regularly scheduled programming on Monday with our normal Q&A format and, you know, generally talking about mnemonics and how you memorize stuff, not just what to memorize. So what do you want to learn? The world's knowledge can be yours. Leave your learning request at masterofmemory.com

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