Carrots were originally purple. The dutch monarch planted carrot seeds together until the carrots grew orange to match their royal color - The House of Orange. Orange carrots were a symbol of prestige.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
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It takes twelve years of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.
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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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Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.
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Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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There is a “Fruit Salad Tree” which can grow up to 6 different types of fruit.
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