Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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While pumpkins are typically orange, they can also be green, white, red, gray, and even blue.
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It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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According to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.
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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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There is a fruit called The Miracle Berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods to taste sweet, and has been used to treat diabetes, among other things.
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An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
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