- 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1908, the first machine to make lollipops opened for business in New Haven, Connecticut.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.
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(Added: Tue Sep 19 2006) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1923, the chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter Cup was invented.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The biggest candy eaters are the Dutch, who average 65 pounds of candy per person in a year.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Each Jelly Belly jelly belly bean has 4 calories.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are 40 official jelly belly flavours.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The amount of Kit Kat chocolate bars that are made at the York factory every 15 minutes are enough to outstack the Eiffel Tower.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The most popular chocolate bar in the United Kingdom for the last 15 years has been Kit Kat.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In the last two years, more than 33,000 tons of Hershey's Bites chocolates have been purchased by Americans.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The name "Snickers" for the popular candy bar was named after a horse that the Mars family owned.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In one day, the Tootsie Roll Industry makes over 16 million lollipops.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1868, the first box of Valentine's Day chocolates were introduced by Richard Cadbury.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first commercial chewing gum was sold in 1848 by John B. Curtis, who also made the gum. He called the gum "State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Dentyne gum was invented in 1899 by a druggist from New York named Franklin V. Canning.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Every year, more than one million miles of Twizzlers licorice is made.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are some types of chocolates that are actually good for the arteries and heart.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The most popular Twizzler candy flavour is strawberry.
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