An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
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The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
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If you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or natural red 4, the product contains crushed up bugs.
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The first breakfast cereal ever produced was Shredded Wheat.
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Glucose (sugar) has an opposite “handed” isomer L-glucose that tastes identical and isn't metabolized as sugar, so it's safe for diabetics. Unfortunately, L-glucose costs 50% more than gold.
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It takes twelve years of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.
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Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent.
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
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