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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Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
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Orange juice naturally contains a small amount of alcohol.
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Strawberries are in the same plant family as roses.
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In 1943, a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers' coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised "Irish Coffee," creating the now-famous cocktail.
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Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent.
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Honey does not spoil. It has been found in Egyptian pyramids perfectly preserved and still edible.
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