If you were giving a speech on the remarkable characteristics of vegetables, the following statistic would be effective as an attention getter. the department of horticulture says that eggplants grown from transplants take seventy-five days to mature.

If you were giving a speech on the remarkable characteristics of vegetables, the following statistic would be effective as an attention getter. The Department of Horticulture says that eggplants grown from transplants take seventy-five days to mature. This is false.

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