The Aztecs were the first to serve chocolate as a drink. They also mixed it with hot chili pepper to make it really 'hot'.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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Glucose (sugar) has an opposite “handed” isomer L-glucose that tastes identical and isn't metabolized as sugar, so it's safe for diabetics. Unfortunately, L-glucose costs 50% more than gold.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
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There is a tiger named Kenny who is the only known tiger to have downs syndrome.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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