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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.

Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.

An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.

Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

During your lifetime, youll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, thats the weight of about 6 elephants.

Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

Girls have more tastebuds than boys.

Goats milk is used more widely throughout the world than cows milk.