25 Food Facts You Won't Believe Are True

By Muk Khatri in Facts On 15th July 2018
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#1 Doritos were invented at Disneyland.

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#2 Taco Bell started as a hot dog stand called Bell's Drive-In.

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#3 Apples belong to the same family as roses.

#4 A spoonful of sugar can cure hiccups by overwhelming a nerve in your brain.

#5 A cluster of bananas is called a hand while a single banana is called a finger.

#6 Hawaiian pizza was actually invented in Canada.

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#7 Popcorn was the first food ever microwaved.

#8 Tomatoes are not native to Italy.

#9 President Thomas Jefferson helped make macaroni popular in the U.S.

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#10 A popular red food dye comes from beetles.

#11 Ice cream usually has seaweed as an ingredient.

#12 Almonds, walnuts and pistachios are not nuts, they are seeds.

#13 You can make invisible ink out of lemon or lime juice.

#14 One of the first foods ever eaten on the moon was bacon.

#15 Nearly every ear of corn you eat will have an even number of kernels on every row.

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#16 Al Froot Loops taste the same, regardless of color.

#17 Lemon float, but limes sink!

#18 Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.

#19 A pineapple is not a single fruit, but a ton of tiny berries fused together!

#20 Humans share more than 60% of their DNA with bananas.

#21 Ketchup was once used as a medicine to treat indigestion.

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#22 Humans are born craving sugar.

#23 A fruitcake can literally last for centuries.

#24 Nearly every avocado sold in the U.S. stems from a single tree.

#25 German chocolate cake is not German-an American baker invented it in 1852.