Amazing Facts
    • Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.
    • Chocolate is not particularly high in caffeine. You would have to eat ten chocolate bars to get the same amount of caffeine as you find in a single cup of coffee.

  • Chocolate is good for you — unfortunately, its additives aren’t! Pure cocoa powder is full of iron and antioxidants. Add sugar or butter, though, and the calories begin to mount.
  • In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
  • The human body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
  • More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
  • The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
  • Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
  • Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  • Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
  • Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
  • The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
  • About 3,000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
  • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
  • Slugs have 4 noses!
  • Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
  • It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
  • Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
  • Americans consume almost half of the world’s annual chocolate products

 

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