Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were originally considered a delicacy, only enjoyed by those of the upper class.
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For clean fruit, fill a bowl with water (or, for bigger batches, use a clean sink), add 1 cup of vinegar, and stir. Add fruit and leave to soak for 10 minutes. The water will be dirty and the fruit will be sparkly clean with no wax or dirty film.
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Quality dark chocolate contains flavonoids which help reduced the risk of heart disease.
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A cauliflower that weighs almost 72.5kg has broken the world record by almost 3kg.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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There is a “Fruit Salad Tree” which can grow up to 6 different types of fruit.
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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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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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