Little known 'Did you know' facts Part 2
Chocolate is a vegetable; Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar BEETS.Both of them are plants, in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.
To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So chocolate bars are a health food. Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
Did you know?... During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Did you know?...Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.Another interesting fact about Donald Duck - never wore pants but always wore a towel when he came out of the shower!
Did you know?...Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Did you know?... The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per sidein a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
Did you know?...The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Did you know?... The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Did you know?...By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Did you know?...Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Did you know?... Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Did you know?...An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
Did you know?...The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
Did you know?... The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Did you know?...Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Did you know?...In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Did you know?... On average,100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
Did you know?...Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Did you know?...The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Did you know?... The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (coincidence? )
Did you know?...In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Did you know?...Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
Did you know?... Channel 4's Ali G's favourite chatchprase "Boyakasha" actually translates to "Death to all white people." And Ali G is, in fact, white.
Did you know?... Sticking your two middle fingers up dates back from the middles ages. When archers were caught they had their two middle fingers cut of so that they couldn't shoot any more arrows. So when an archer was shooting people he would stick his fingers up to say "look I still have them, "hahaha".
Did you know?... In some eastern European countries shaking your head means "yes". Whereas nodding your head means "no"
Did you know?...December is the most popular time for Conception.
Did you know?...Over 75% of people who read this page will try to lick their elbow.
Did you know?...You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your friends nose.
Did you know?...Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Did you know?...This is why I hate Barbie. If she was of real life size, this is what her portions would be-
Height: 7ft 2 inches (average woman: 5ft 4in)
Neck: Twice the size of a normal human female which would make it very unable to support the weight of her head.
Boobs: 39 inches (or approximately an FF cup: average woman 36B)
Waist: 18 inches (which is only possible if you remove 2 ribs and carry both kidneys around in a bag)
Hips: 33 inches
Shoe Size: 5
Also Ken and Barbie are brother and sister!
Did you know?...Modern records do not compare with that of St Simeon the younger (C AD 521-97) called stylites a monk who spent the final 45 years of his life living at the top of a stone pillar on the hill of wonders near Antioch in Syria! What the fuck?.....
Did you know?...14% of all facts and statisticts are made up and 27% of people know that fact.
Did you know?...Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Did you know?...Eskimos have over 15 words for the english word of 'Snow'
Did you know?...Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.... each
Did you know?...Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Did you know?...Contray to popular belief, the British flag is not called "The Union Jack" its actually called "The Union Flag". Its only called the Union Jack when out at sea on navy ships
Did you know?... You are most likely to get murdered at Christmas time due to more alcohol being drunk. Merry Christmas.
Did you know?...If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Did you know?... TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Did you know?...On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament buildings is an American flag.
Did you know?... Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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