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During World War II, American troops required about one million pounds of dehydrated cranberries a year.
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In 1816, the first recorded yield of cranberries was grown and harvested in Dennis, Massachusetts.
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Americans consume some 400 millions pounds of cranberries a year – close to 80 million of those pounds during Thanksgiving week.
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Some of today’s productive cranberry bogs are more than 100 years old.
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Small pockets of air inside fresh cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water.
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If you strung together all the cranberries produced in North America they’d stretch from Boston to Los Angeles more than 565 times.
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Native American medicine men used cranberries in poultices to draw poison from arrow wounds.
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Sailors used cranberries as a source of vitamin C to prevent scurvy.