Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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If you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or natural red 4, the product contains crushed up bugs.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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According to the FDA, it's safe to eat the stickers that are found on fruit; they're actually made out of "edible paper" and the glue is food grade.
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A type of strawberry that almost became extinct is now being sold in Europe. It tastes like pineapple so they call it pineberry.
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