The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
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An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
40
Absinthe is a high volume alcoholic drink (up to 89.9% in the UK) which contains a hallucinogenic ingredient called Wormwood and is banned in the United States.
93
Orange juice naturally contains a small amount of alcohol.
156
The first breakfast cereal ever produced was Shredded Wheat.
110
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
131
For clean fruit, fill a bowl with water (or, for bigger batches, use a clean sink), add 1 cup of vinegar, and stir. Add fruit and leave to soak for 10 minutes. The water will be dirty and the fruit will be sparkly clean with no wax or dirty film.
2
It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
87