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[Ice cream fact 1] The first ice cream truck vendor in the United States was Harry Burt, who started his business in 1920.
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[Ice cream fact 2] The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, when a Syrian named Ernest E. Hamwi used batter at his waffle booth to make cones to help out his neighbor, an ice cream vendor who had run out of bowls.
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[Ice cream fact 3] The first ice cream dish in Italy was invented in 1600s Renaissance Florence, when Catherina de’ Medici held a competition for new and unique dishes to be presented at court.
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[Ice cream fact 4] In the 1920s, newly arrived immigrants to Ellis Island were fed ice cream sandwiches in their first meal—in order to introduce them to the finer things of American culture.
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[Ice cream fact 5] The first ice cream produced in Japan made use of ice and salt taken from the city streets of Yokohama.
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[Ice cream fact 6] Although early versions of the dessert appeared in ancient China and Rome, ice cream as we know it today was created in Italy.
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[Ice cream fact 7] In 2016, China consumed the most ice cream: 4.3 billion liters.
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[Ice cream fact 8] In Italy, there are over 19,000 gelaterias (ice cream parlors) employing over 69,000 people. Most of them are small, family-owned businesses.
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[Ice cream fact 9] Commonly known as “ice cream headaches” or "brain freeze," a cold-stimulus headache occurs when extremely cold food touches the roof of the mouth, causing the blood vessels there to rapidly constrict, affecting sensitive nerves in the area.
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[Ice cream fact 10] As of 2016, Norwegians eat the most ice cream per capita, with each person eating an average of 9.8 liters of ice cream a year.
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