Pineapples has proteins that degrade meat. Many people who work in pineapple plantations have obscured or removed fingerprints.

McDonald’s in the UK changed the design of McFlurry in 2006 as stray hedgehogs were getting their heads caught in the lids.

Soy sauce contains 10 times the antioxidants of red wine. Also, ingesting a quart of soy sauce in one go can send you into a coma.

The original name of color orange was “Geoluhread” and later people started calling it “Orange” after the fruit.

Coca-Cola wasn’t the only soft drink to at one time contain a drug derivative in its mixture; lithium was once part of the formula for 7-up.

Nutella was invented during WW2, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.

Studies have found that male fruit flies sexually rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have had a successful encounter.

Gordon Ramsay challenged a prison cook to an onion cutting competition. The inmate won. Ramsay immediately offered him a job at one of his restaurants upon his release.

The vanilla flavouring castoreum comes from a beaver’s anal gland, which is also used as an additive in ice tea, yogurt, gelatin, fruit-flavored drinks, and candy.

Mice in fact do not like cheese. In the 1500s, cheese could be found in almost every house, even that of the poor, with no other choices of food around, mice would eat the cheese.

32 out of 33 samples of well-known brands of milk purchased in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California had trace amounts of perchlorate. Perchlorate is the explosive component in rocket fuel.

Carrots were originally purple. The Dutch monarch carrot planted seeds together until the carrots grew orange to match their royal color – The House of Orange. Orange carrots were a symbol of prestige.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930′s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

McDonald’s restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald’s purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald’s for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling).