- The first Life Saver flavour, which was peppermint, was invented in 1912 and it was called Pep-O-Mint.
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- The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year.
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- M&M's chocolates were chosen to be part of the astronauts food supply in 1982.
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- Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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- Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet.
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- 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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- During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk.
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- Hershey's has the capacity to wrap up to 1,300 Hershey's Kisses every minute.
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- In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.
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- Kit Kat chocolate bar was introduced to the market in 1935.
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- The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark.
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- The most popular jelly belly jellybean flavour is buttered popcorn.
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- There are twenty-five calories in one Hershey's Kiss chocolate.
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- 40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate.
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- The word Popcorn is derived from the middle English word "poppe," which means "explosive sound".
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- In the early 1900's, a Russian immigrant by the name of Samuel Born invented a lollipop making machine that automatically inserted the sticks into the candy.
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- In 1908, the first machine to make lollipops opened for business in New Haven, Connecticut.
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- The first chocolate bar was made in 1847 by Fry's chocolate factory located in Bristol, England. They were the ones to mold the first chocolate bar that was suitable to be distributed to the public.
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- During the Boer War, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greeting to the British troops that were in South Africa in 1900 in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.
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- In 1923, the chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter Cup was invented.
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- There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987.
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