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Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.
Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
Carbonated water, with nothing else in it,can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda pop.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living!
The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.
Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.
Turnips turn green when sunburnt.
The growth rate of some bamboo plants can reach three feet (91.44 cm) per day.
Cranberry Jello is the only jello flavor that comes from real fruit, not artificial flavoring.
Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
