English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid!
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Blueberry juice boosts memory.
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It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
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Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons!
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Quality dark chocolate contains flavonoids which help reduced the risk of heart disease.
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15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
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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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