January 22, 2010
By: bozobouffe
Category: Uncategorized
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
- Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- In the 1800′s, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.
- McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.
- Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.
- Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
- Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.
- Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
- Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
- Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.
- The only “real” food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
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