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Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. Source Plain grain products lower your IQ, while whole grain products increase your IQ. Eating lemons make you live longer. Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year! Argentinians eat more meat than any other nation in the world. In 1904, the ice cream cone was invented. Baskin Robbins once made ketchup-flavored ice cream. Someone living in New York could eat out every night of their life and never eat at the same restaurant. The Snickers bar is America's most popular candy bar. Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year. The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook. Apples ripen after being picked while oranges do not. Broccoli was introduced into the U.S. in the 1920s. Choking on food is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. Potato chips are the biggest selling snack food in the U.S. and Canada. A peanut is one of the most concentrated source of nourishment. Half the people in the world will eat rice on any given day. Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream per capita than the rest of the nation. A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten. There are 27 chemicals that can be added to bread without being listed on the label. Coffee is the world's most recognizable smell. Most ice cream is eaten between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. Half of all coffee drinkers drink it black. It takes four tons of grapes to make one ton of raisins. Apples are the most popular fruit in the U.S. 13 boxes of jello are sold every second. A can of spam is opened every 4 seconds somewhere on Earth. An average adult eats 2,000 pounds of food each year. |



