Interesting Stuff

Interesting stuff- FOOD
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The white powder on chewing gum is actually sweetened marble dust.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
Gum on postage stamps have from two to eight calories.
During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
Americans eat about 700 million pounds of peanut butter and 2 billion pounds of chocolate a year.
It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
The average American eats about seven pounds of potato chips a year.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Russia’s best selling candy bar: Snickers.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
On average, each American ate 4.4 pounds of jelly last year.
Pound for pound (kilo for kilo), hamburgers cost more than new cars.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

Reprinted from "Rick Frishman's Author101 Newsletter"
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