- The first Life Saver flavour, which was peppermint, was invented in 1912 and it was called Pep-O-Mint.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Approximately 71% of American chocolate eaters prefer to eat milk chocolate.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - When the Pez mint dispenser was first introduced it was meant to replace the activity of smoking.
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(Added: Mon Feb 21 2005) - M&M's chocolates were chosen to be part of the astronauts food supply in 1982.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century. During that time it was provided in the form of a drink and since drinking wine during lent was a sin, so was drinking chocolate.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Hershey's has the capacity to wrap up to 1,300 Hershey's Kisses every minute.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1981, blueberry flavoured jellybeans were created for United States' president Ronald Reagan's inauguration in 1981.
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(Added: Tue Sep 19 2006) - In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Kit Kat chocolate bar was introduced to the market in 1935.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Leo Hirshfield introduced the "Tootsie Roll" candy in 1896. The idea of the name came from Hirshfield's daughter nickname Tootsie.
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(Added: Tue Sep 19 2006) - The candy bar "Baby Ruth" was named after U.S. President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth.
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(Added: Thu Jan 12 2006) - The chocolate "M&M's" stands for the last names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the candy maker, and his associate Bruce Murrie.
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(Added: Tue May 2 2006) - The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The most popular jelly belly jellybean flavour is buttered popcorn.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink.
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(Added: Thu Sep 21 2006) - There are twenty-five calories in one Hershey's Kiss chocolate.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The word Popcorn is derived from the middle English word "poppe," which means "explosive sound".
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