Food and Drink Facts
All kinds of facts about food and drink. Featuring a range of topics, including diet, nutrition, and food tips.
Diet Pepsi was originally called Patio Diet Cola.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
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Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry!
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English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid!
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Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
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Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
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Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.
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For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier.
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Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.
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Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
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Heineken beer is designed to 'foam' for exactly five minutes.
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Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf balls.
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If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.
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If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise to the top.
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In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
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In India, pickled ginger, minced mutton, and a cottage cheese like substances are popular pizza toppings.
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In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
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In Spain, it is common to pour chocolate milk on cereal for breakfast.
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Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie.
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Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive'.
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