It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
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The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50.
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM.
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Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
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Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry!
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