( Courtesy from Ken Jennings [yes that Ken Jennings] on www.woot.com ) Ok this is a little dry, and on the factoid side but very interesting. I think I'll do an article on it later. Doubt I can match the detailedness. But for now, I couldn't have said it any better Mr Jennings. I'll edit it for readability. He starts off with the Question; Are Tulips Native to the Netherlands? It begins.... "[Sure] windmills, wooden shoes, and heroin are pretty great, but, as signifiers of the Netherlands go, there’s everything else and then there’s the mighty tulip. What could be more Dutch than a field of brightly colored tulips, swaying in the wind? The Netherlands still produces three billion tulips every year, and its Keukenhof garden, near Lisse, is the largest tulip display in the world. But would it surprise you to know that tulips aren’t Dutch at all—that the de facto national flower is, in fact, a fairly recent immigrant? Tulips are actually native to the steppes of...