Tabasco sauce is aged in barrels previously used for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey.
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It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.
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Lima beans contain cyanide!
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Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
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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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Contrary to popular belief, plastic cutting boards are more likely to harbor bacteria than wood ones. New plastic boards are easier to clean, but ones with cuts are nearly impossible to completely disinfect, whereas wood ones absorb and kill bacteria, regardless of age or use.
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