Today's interesting fact has to do with Cotton.

Cotton has been used for garments and ropes thousands of years.

Old World cotton has short strands.

When the Spanish went into the Caribbean they found that the cotton used by the Carib and Arawak Indians had long strands.

Europeans took seeds of the Caribbean cotton and exported it all over the world, where it was crossed with short strand cotten, to create the hybrids of cotton we use today.