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ACCIDENTS
Research in the USA has shown that the average American is more likely to die... MORE

BACON
After being fined £40,000 for accepting bribes while he was Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon devoted... MORE

BANGLADESH
Bangladesh is the most crowded country on earth, with 2,639 people per square mile. ... MORE

BAUDELAIRE
The favourite foods of the French poet and critic Baudelaire were onion soup and bacon... MORE

BURNT FOOD
The Museum of Burnt Food is located in Arlington, Massachusetts, and is home to around... MORE

CAMEL
The camel has no gall bladder and, despite the hump, the backbone of a camel... MORE

CHIMPANZEE
The official name of the Common Chimpanzee is Pan Troglodytes. Troglodyte means 'cave-dweller'. The word chimpanzee derives... MORE

CHOCOLATE
Montezuma started the myth about chocolate being an aphrodisiac. His cup of cocoa at bedtime... MORE

CHOPSTICKS
Thirty per cent of the world's population generally eat with chopsticks. Japanese and Chinese chopsticks,... MORE

CONDOM
In 1995, the authorities in the Philippines threatened to ban fruit-flavoured condoms. A spokesman for... MORE

CORNFLAKES
In 1906 William K. Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company to market... MORE

DRIVING
According to a survey conducted in 1997: 7% of lorry drivers think of sex, drink, food... MORE

ELEPHANT
The manner of copulation in elephants was a matter for speculation in the Dark Ages.... MORE

FROG
The town of Vittel in France is headquarters to the Brotherhood of Frog Thigh Tasters... MORE

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GRAPE
There are more than 60 species and 8,000 varieties of grapes, and they can all... MORE

INDONESIA
A £700 prize was offered in Indonesia in 1985 for a song extolling the joys... MORE

ISRAEL
In 2008, the official magazine of the Israeli military reported that a drug used to... MORE

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Mary, Queen of Scots used to test her food for poison with something that was... MORE

MAZE
The science journal Nature in 2000 reported that a slime mould has the ability to... MORE

MOOSE
The species know as a moose in North America is referred to as an elk... MORE

MUSHROOM
A person who studies mushrooms and fungi is a mycologist. If you eat them, you are... MORE

PANCAKE
In 2003, Stephen Wilkinson, a physicist at Leeds University, announced the secret of pancake tossing:... MORE

PERU
Peru is the only country whose name can be typed on a single row of... MORE

PHILIPPINES
In 1997 Marikina City, a suburb of the Philippine capital of Manila, passed a proposal... MORE

PIZZA
The world's first real pizzeria was the Antica Pizzeria Port' Alba in Naples. It opened in... MORE

PLATYPUS
The platypus has a muzzle like a duck's bill, a tail like a beaver, lays... MORE

POLAR BEAR
Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in... MORE

POPCORN
The definitive science of popcorn can be found in the paper 'The Effects of Ingredients... MORE

RAGS
According to the Public Health (Control Disease) Act 1984, nobody in the UK who collects... MORE

REINDEER
Duck droppings are a reindeer's favourite food. In 2001, Harrods department store in... MORE

RESTAURANTS
According to a survey in 1999, the top ten causes of arguments when dining out... MORE

SAUSAGES
The word 'sausage' comes originally from the Latin 'salscius' meaning 'prepared by salting'. The earliest known... MORE

SEAL
In 2008, researchers on Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean reported seeing an Antarctic... MORE

SHOPPING TROLLEYS
The world's first shopping trolley first arrived on the aisles of a supermarket in Oklahoma,... MORE

SKUA
The skua dives at its victims and eats the food they sick up in fright,... MORE

SWEDEN
History: In the Middle Ages the Swedish town of Hurdenburg elected its mayor by... MORE

TABLOID
The word 'tabloid' was originally coined and registered on 14 March 1884 as a trademark... MORE

TAMPON
The first disposable tampons were invented by the ancient Egyptians and made from softened papyrus. The... MORE

TEACHING
The first evidence of a non-human "teacher-pupil" relationship was identified in 2006 in ants. Research... MORE

TINS
Tinned food originated with a prize offered by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1795 for a method... MORE

TUNA
A Japanese seafood distributor paid £120,000 for a 445lb blue-fin tuna at an auction in... MORE

WHALE
The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a... MORE

WORM
Linnaeus longissimus, the bootlace worm, is the longest animal on earth. In 1984 one found... MORE

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WEATHER
In the UK the weather forecast 'It'll be much the same as yesterday' is right... MORE

SKUNK
A skunk can shoot its pungent spray a distance of 15ft. It is legal to... MORE

FREUD
The first paper by the founder of psychoanalysis was an account of his unsuccessful search... MORE

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CHROMOSOME
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200. ... MORE

ALGERIA
Algeria is the largest country by area in Africa. Before 2011, when South Sudan became independent,... MORE

THAMES
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GHANA
The only country that produces more cocoa than Ghana is the Ivory Coast. The name... MORE

VULTURE
In March 2009, the head of the regional government in Madrid petitioned the EU to... MORE

WALES
An Englishman has the right, granted a millennium ago, to shoot a Welshman from a... MORE

WASP
In November 2001 Dutch scientists announced that they had found a way of using wasps... MORE

VATICAN
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NOODLING
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BROCCOLI
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