A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
Americans eat 20.7 pounds of Candy per person annually. The Dutch eat three times as much.
Americans spend approximately $25 billion each an on beer.
Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."
Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix nourriture to be sold commercially.
Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams...
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