Food and Drink

Bizarre Fact #351:
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The Southern dish "Chitlins" is made up of pigs' small intestines.

Bizarre Fact #352:
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The wheat that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires 2 tons of water to grow.

Bizarre Fact #353:
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There are 2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a SUBWAY menu.

Bizarre Fact #354:
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There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice.

Bizarre Fact #355:
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There are more than 200 kinds of chili peppers, none of which belong to the pepper family.

Bizarre Fact #356:
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There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world. The apples from one tree can fill 20 boxes every year. Each box weighs an average 42 pounds.

Bizarre Fact #357:
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There are professional tea tasters as well as wine tasters.

Bizarre Fact #358:
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There are thousands of varieties of shrimp, but most are so tiny that they are more likely to be eaten by whales than people. Of the several hundred around the world that people do eat, only a dozen or so appear with any regularity in the United States.

Bizarre Fact #359:
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There are two types of asparagus: green and white. One of the most popular varieties of green asparagus is named after Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington.

Bizarre Fact #360:
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Thin-skinned lemons are the juiciest.