It takes twelve years of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.
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There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together.
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Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
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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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It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
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