Food and Drink Facts

    Food and Drink Facts

    All kinds of facts about food and drink. Featuring a range of topics, including diet, nutrition, and food tips.

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    Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
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    It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.
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    The average French citizen eats 500 snails per year.
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    Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
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    The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50.
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    The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers.
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    A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
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    Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts.
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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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    Tabasco sauce is aged in barrels previously used for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey.
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    Pepsi-Cola was originally called 'Brad's drink'.
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    An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
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    By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
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    For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier.
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    The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school.
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    The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients.
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    Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.
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    Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
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