Carrots were originally purple. The dutch monarch planted carrot seeds together until the carrots grew orange to match their royal color - The House of Orange. Orange carrots were a symbol of prestige.
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There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
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A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
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A strawberry is not a berry, but a banana is.
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By 3,000 B.C. there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt.
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Milkshakes were originally alcoholic.
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A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
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It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.
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