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Useless Food and Drink Data and Facts

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.

Francis Bacon died in his attempt to find a better way to serve food. He caught a case of pneumonia while attempting to stuff a chicken with snow. Ironically, the chicken survived the ordeal.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in waking you up in the morning.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The almond is a member of the peach family.

Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.