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Some fun facts about PECANS:

- Pecans aren’t technically nuts. They are actually “drupes,” considered the fruit of a tree similar to almonds, peaches and plums.
- The word “pecan” comes from an Algonquin word that means “a nut that requires a stone to crack” because of the hard shell.
- There are two ways people pronounce “pecan”.
- When Spanish explorers discovered them in the 16th Century, they named them “nuez de larruga” which means “wrinkle nut”
- Native Americans ate pecans but also made pecan milk for infants and the elderly
- Pecans are related to walnuts
- Pecan trees only produce nuts every two years
- Pecans were not commercially grown until the 1880s.
- Thomas Jefferson planted a pecan tree in his orchard and would gift the other founding fathers pecans.
- Pecans trees are native to the United States
- There are over 1,000 different varieties of pecan nuts.
- It takes 12 years for a pecan tree to reach maturity and begin producing nuts.
- Pecan trees live for 300 years.
- They can grow to over 150 ft tall and have trunks that measure over 3 feet in diameter
- 90% of all pecans are grown in the United States
- April 14th is National Pecan Day in the United States
- The pecan tree is the state tree of Texas
- Astronauts took pecans to the moon two times in the Apollo space mission.
- Roasted pecan shells were often used as a substitute for coffee during World War II
- July 12th is national pecan pie day in the United States

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