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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In India, pickled ginger, minced mutton, and a cottage cheese like substances are popular pizza toppings.
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Contrary to popular belief, plastic cutting boards are more likely to harbor bacteria than wood ones. New plastic boards are easier to clean, but ones with cuts are nearly impossible to completely disinfect, whereas wood ones absorb and kill bacteria, regardless of age or use.
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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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Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent.
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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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Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
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