Interesting Celery Fact No. 149

It's a commonly held misconception that the holes along a stick of celery are naturally formed. In reality, they are bored out by the Lesser Spotted Celery Maggot which survives only until it reaches the end of the stick, making it vitally important that each maggot calculates exactly the speed of growth of the stick of celery to ensure that it doesn't reach the end too quickly.

The Lesser Spotted Celery Maggot is therefore the only insect that can perform mental arithmetic relating to its own velocity.