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• [Food fact 1]  When Khair Bey, the governor of Mecca, banned coffee in 1511 because he feared it might encourage resistance to his rule, the sultan executed him on the grounds that coffee was actually “blessed.”

  Beverages, Coffee, Food

• [Food fact 2]  Strawberry generation is a Chinese term for anyone who is born after 1981. Named after strawberries because strawberries "bruise easily", they can not withstand social pressure or work hard like their parents' generation.

  Food, People source

• [Food fact 3]  Pizza is the second-leading source of calories in the diet of American children, second behind grain desserts, such as cookies and other carb-heavy treats.

  Food, Pizza

• [Food fact 4]  When any starchy food (Pasta) is cooked, cooled, and reheated, it reduces the rise in blood glucose by 50%.

  Food, Misc source

• [Food fact 5]  Chocolate was once used as currency by the Aztecs (more accurately, cacao beans were used).

  Food, History source

• [Food fact 6]  The reason southerners eat black-eyed peas on New Year's Day is because during Sherman's bloody march to the sea the only thing northerners didn't loot or burn were black-eyed peas, thus making them the primary source of food.

  Festival, Food source

• [Food fact 7]  Contrary to popular belief, cats like it when they are pet when eating

  Animals, Food source

• [Food fact 8]  In 2009, Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook you were entitled to a free whopper. The ex-friend would receive a message explaining that their friendship was less valuable than a whopper.

  Corporation, Food source

• [Food fact 9]  The first can opener was patented 160 years ago, on January 5, 1858, fifty years after the can was invented. Prior to its invention, people used hammers and chisels to open cans.

  Food, People source

• [Food fact 10]  Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, in order to maintain his legendary physique, eats more than 5,000 calories a day. The calories, spread over seven meals, include roughly 2.3 pounds of cod, a fish particularly rich in protein. The rest is eggs, steak, chicken, vegetables and potatoes — all told, about 10 pounds of food per day. The above picture shows his prep meal for a day fully loaded with calories and protein.

  Actors, Food, Health, People source

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