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Health and food
- No other species than humans drink milk from the mothers of other species?
- If you kiss someone for one minute you will burn about 6 - 7 calories?
- A kiss could result in an exchanged of over 270 colonies of bacteria?
- The milk of reindeer has more fat than cow milk?
- People in Sweden eat about 1 kg/person of ham each Christmas?
- Sweden is one of the top consumers per capita of ketchup in the world?
- The upperclass Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste?
- If you lick 10 stamps you will consume one calorie?
- Popcorn was invented by the American Indians?
- Turks drink more tea than any other people in the world?
- An overweight person is about 5 times more likely to get a heart disease?
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is kosher?
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie?
- It takes about 6 hours for your stomach to digest a high fat meal?
- 25% of the weight of your old pillow is from dust & dust mites?
- In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. It was a pharmacist named John Pemberton who creator of Coca-cola?
- Banging your head against a wall uses about 150 calories an hour?
- Americans consume about 42 tons of Aspirin each day?
- It takes about four and five pounds of grapes to make one pound of raisins?
- The first toilet stall in a public washroom is the least likely to be used. It is also the cleanest?
- Rice is the staple food for 50% of the world’s population?
- Potatoes, pineapples, and pumpkins originate from Peru?
- More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food?
- Iceland is the world largest Coca-Cola consumers per capita?
- China produces more apples than the rest of the world put together?
- The city of Denver in Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger?
- Pearls melt in vinegar?
- A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not?
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying?
- There is no butter in buttermilk?
- There are over 40 000 varieties of rice grown worldwide?
- 80% of the Vanilla Beans which are used in ice cream is grown in Madagascar?
- Coca-Cola was originally green?
- Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year?
- The astronauts Neil Armstrong ate roasted turkey as his first meal on the moon?
- All foods have some water in them?
- The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China. It has twenty nine cash registers and measuring 28,000 square feet?
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV?
- There are over 7 000 varieties of apples?
- Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream in Europe?
- You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself?
- During your lifetime you will eat about the weight of 6 fullgrown elephants?
- Rice contains no fiber at all?
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do?
- The number 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the ingredients in the sauce?
- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave?
- Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health?
- In the U.S. ice cream is sold most on a Sunday?
- Americans eat 18% more vegetables today than they did in 1970?
- One in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland?
- In the 1800's people believed that gin could cure stomach problems?
- Rice needs more water to grow than any other crop?
- Patients stay in hospital for an average of almost 10 days in Switzerland, which has the most hospital beds per 1000 people?
- On average, women in New Zealand do not give birth until they are 30 years old?
- 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so?
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