Food & Cuisine

Ice Cream was first made in China!

Blueberry juice boosts memory.

The Hymn to Ninkasi, a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem, contains the oldest known beer recipe in history.

The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.

Sago worms taste like bacon when roasted.

While their exact origins are debated, fortune cookies were invented in America, with one prominent claim attributing their popularization to David Jung in Los Angeles around 1918, who served them with inspirational messages.

In the 1990s, about 9 out of 10 American children visited a McDonald's restaurant at least once per month.

You can overdose on caffeine.

91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.

Premium watermelons in Japan can sell for thousands of dollars, with rare Densuke watermelons fetching up to $6,100 at auction!

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

Sometimes frozen fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than fresh!

Coca-Cola contained coca leaf extract (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1886 to 1903.

Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.

Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.

Potato chips are the number one selling snack in the United States, with Americans consuming over 1.5 billion pounds annually.

Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.

Chocolate triggers the release of dopamine in your brain's reward system and contains compounds like theobromine and phenylethylamine that can improve mood and energy.

Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produces brain and heart rate activity that is similar to—and even stronger than—that produced with passionate kissing.

Safe drinking water can contain up to 500,000 bacteria per liter and still meet EPA safety standards.