Broccoli is ‘man-made’ through the breeding of different cabbage crops.
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Soaking beans for twelve hours in water before they are cooked can reduce flatulence after consumption.
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One jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds throughout the world.
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Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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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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