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In Korea, if you do not receive any gift on Valentine's day then all the singles go to Korean restaurants and eat black noodles to celebrate (or mourn) their single status.

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Corn Flakes were invented by John Harvey Kellogg as part his campaign to prevent masturbation.

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Ancient gladiators were mostly vegetarians whose diet consisted mainly of grains, beans, and dried fruit, washed down with a vinegar and plant ash tonic.

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It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.

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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.

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Ancient Europeans Were Lactose Intolerant Thousands of Years after They Started Making Cheese

For 4,000 years after they started making cheese, Ancient Europeans were lactose intolerant.

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The Himalayan Goji berry has more iron than steak, more vitamin C than oranges and more beta carotene than carrots.

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