• Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide.
• There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake.
• Instead of a birthday cake, many Russian children are given a birthday pie.
• One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples.
• The last thing Elvis Presley ate before he died was four scoops of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies.
• The Ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds.
• Over 200 varieties of watermelons are grown in the US.
• In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries.
• Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.
• To make one pound of butter, 29 cups of milk are needed.
• The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees. Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
• The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark.
• The only popcorn museum in the world is located in Marion, Ohio, USA.
• Apples are part of the rose family.
• In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British.
• A common drink for Tibetans is butter tea which is made out of butter, salt and brick tea.
• The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds.
• In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year.
• In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of French fries.
• The average American kid will eat approximately 1.500 peanut butter sandwiches by high school graduation.
• Studies have shown that putting on slow background music can make a person eat food at a slower rate.
• Chilli powder was invented in the 19th century in the American Southwest.
• Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orange.
• A one ounce milk chocolate bar has six mg of caffeine. — Compiled by The Surfer
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