An ounce of chocolate contains about 20 mg of caffeine.
Approximately 44 million tons of bananas are produced annually, compared to more than 60 million tomatoes. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34 million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).
There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
Over the last 40 years food production actually increased faster than population.
Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
Picasso could draw before he could walk and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.
The largest horse statue in the world, the Zizkov Monument in Prague, stands 9 metres (30 ft) tall.
The first English dictionary was written by Samuel Johnson in 1755.
The first colour photograph was made in 1861 by James Maxwell. He photographed a tartan ribbon.
The first novel sold through a vending machine - at the Paris Metro - was Murder on the Orient Express.
The largest statue in the world is Mount Rushmore, the heads of four US Presidents carved into the Black Hills near Keystone. The heads are 18 m (60 ft) tall.
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