The sweet potato belongs in the same family as morning glories while the white potato belongs to the same group as tomatoes, tobacco, chile pepper, eggplant and the petunia.

The potato is about 80% water and 20% solids.

An 8 ounce baked or boiled potato has only about 100 calories.

The average American eats about 124 pounds of potatoes per year while Germans eat about twice as much.

In 1974, an Englishman named Eric Jenkins grew 370 pounds of potatoes from one plant.

Thomas Jefferson gets the credit for introducing "french fries" to America when he served them at a White House dinner.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest potato grown was 7 pounds 1 ounce by J. East (1953) and J. Busby (1982) of Great Britain.