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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50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
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The biggest burger in Britain, dubbed the 'Apocalypse Burger', is a mammoth 25,000 calories, weighs 11kg (25lb) and contains £150 (around $233 USD) worth of ingredients.
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The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
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Pepsi-Cola was originally called 'Brad's drink'.
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Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.
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Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons!
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Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
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