5th Jun 2020 - 07:46
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As schools make the first, tentative steps back to normality, perhaps our selection of food facts provides you with a useful reminder that the pursuit of knowledge, however trivial, is a worthwhile goal.
• Pope Benedict XVI drank more than five times his own bodyweight in Fanta every year
• Milk from the elephant seal is twice as thick as whipping cream
• The world’s oldest known legal system in ancient Mesopotamia established beer as a unit of currency
• American novelist and short story writer Sherwood Anderson died from swallowing the toothpick in the olive in his Martini.
• The average kebab on sale in UK fast food outlets contains 98% of your daily salt requirement
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