-Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
-Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
-The no. 1 food ordered by women in restraunts is french fries.
-Coffee originated from the Arabic word “qahwah”.
-Apple is made of 25% air, that is why they float.
-Beer of 375mL has fewer calories than two slices of bread and contains no fat.
-Birds eat half their own body weight in food each day!
-Butterflies taste with their feet.
-Cabbage is 91% water.
-Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
-Chewing gum may keep you slim by boosting the metabolic rate by about 20%.
-Chicken is one of the few things that we eat before it's born and after it's dead.
-Coca-cola was originally green.
-Corn always has an even number of ears.
-Doughnuts were orginally made of raised dough with a nut in the centre.
-Fortune cookies are not Chinese, they were invented in Los Angeles around 1920.
-Hamburgers were invented in 1900 by Louis Lassen. He ground beef, broiled it, and served it between two pieces of toast.
-Mayonnaise will kill lice and also condition your hair.
-Pineapple is the international symbol of hospitality.
-Pizza originated in the early 1700's in Naples, Italy.
-Raisin in a glass of champagne will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
-Strawberries are the only fruit which has its seeds on its outer skin.
-Ten gallon hats only hold about 6 pints or 2.8 Litres.
-White chocolate is not a true chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor, instead its made of sugar, cocoa butter, milk solids, lecithin and vanilla.
-White shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and earlobes while brown eggs are produced by hens with red feathers and earlobes; the colour has no relationship to the nutritional quality or taste of the eggs.
-Yelling for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days produces enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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