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- 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 3000 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
- 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!
- 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.
- One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
- The banana “tree” is not really a tree, but a giant herb. The banana is the fruit of this herb.
- The cluster of bananas sold in supermarkets is a “hand” of bananas, while the individual bananas on the hand are called fingers.
- The yellow bananas that are most often sold in supermarkets are sometimes called “dessert bananas” because they are soft and sweet.
- It is believed by many experts that bananas were the first fruit cultivated by humans.
- Alexander the Great first came across bananas in India in 327 B.C.
- Bananas were introduced to the United States at the 1876
- Philadelphia Centennial Celebration, where they were sold wrapped in foil for 10 cents each.
- The average American consumes 28 pounds of bananas per year.
- Worldwide, bananas are the fourth largest fruit crop.
- India is the #1 banana producer in the world.
- In Uganda, bananas are such a big part of the diet that the same word, matooke, is used for both “food” and “banana.”
- The song “Yes, We Have No Bananas” was released in 1923 and became a huge hit. It refers to the banana shortage at the time.
- In 2001, Britain recorded 300 incidents of injuries related to bananas.
- The majority of these involved people slipping on banana peels.
