Chocolatey Goodness!

Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.

 

The only “real” food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.

 

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

 

Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine that your brain produces when you fall in love.

 

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

 

Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

 

Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics (aka brain disorder).

 

Heroin used to be a cough medicine for children. A German company (Bayer) registered heroin as a trademark.

 

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

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