that strawberries were once used as a toothpaste? The juice of the berry cleaned discolored teeth.
that there is an old custom that if you break a double strawberry in half and share it with
someone else you both will fall in love?
that in the 1300s King Charles V of France ordered twelve hundred
strawberry plants to be grown in the Royal Gardens of the Louvre?
that in some parts of Bavaria, country folk practice a ritual in the spring by
tying small baskets of wild strawberries to the horns of their cattle as
an offering to wood elves? It is believed, as the story goes, that because of their love for strawberries, the elves will show their gratitude by giving the cows healthy calves and an
abundance of milk.
that there's a museum entirely dedicated to strawberries located in Belgium?
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