English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid!
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Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
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If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.
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Eating a banana can cheer you up!
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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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Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.
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An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
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The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
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