Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
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The Aztecs were the first to serve chocolate as a drink. They also mixed it with hot chili pepper to make it really 'hot'.
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Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
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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.
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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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Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.
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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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