You have 100 pounds of potatoes and you know that they’re made up of 99% water. You leave them out overnight and they dry out a bit, so they’re only 98% water. How much do they weigh now? 99lbs? 98lbs? They’ve only lost 1%...

Nope. 50 pounds they’ve lost half their weight! But how? Bust out your burlap potato sack, because Kevin is about to do the dirty work of uncovering the answer to a bizarre veridical paradox that just doesn’t seem to add up. Gravy not included.

** SOURCES ***

Origins of Colorado Potato Beetle: https://phys.org/news/201803majorp...

Colorado Potato Beetle Genome Research and Propaganda History: https://news.wisc.edu/coloradopotato...

Czechoslovakian American Beetle Propaganda Video:    • American Bug (English subtitles) Comm...  

USDA Food Composition Data: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/sh...

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