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Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.12

23rd Mar 2018 - 07:00
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Another random mix of Fun Friday Food Facts this week, we hope you enjoy!
  • Scientist have managed to create diamond from scratch using peanut butter
  • Many people imagine that fortune cookies are a Chinese tradition popularised in the US, but the first ones originated in Kyoto, Japan.
  • Coffee aroma is sprayed onto the inside of instant coffee jar lids so it smells of freshly ground coffee when you open it
  • Due to agricultural practices, you would need to eat eight times the amount of oranges now than people would have 50 years ago, to get the same amount of vitamin A
  • People have chewed gum for over 5,500 years
  • Falling coconuts kill 150 people every year – 10 times the number of people killed by sharks.
Written by
Edward Waddell