Every year up to a dozen people in Japan choke to death on glutinous cakes of pounded rice – known as mochi – which are traditionally eaten to celebrate the New Year. The country’s emergency services advise people not to eat them alone.
It is true that eating massive amounts of carrots can sometimes cause a person's skin to turn yellowish orange. This is most noticeable on the palms or soles of feet and is called carotenemia.
Kissing may have originated when mothers orally passed chewed solid food to their infants during weaning.
When grapes are harvested by machine for wine making, the machine shakes the grapes off the vine. But this also means that insects, birds and basically anything else in the vine comes off too. Cheap wine makers don’t generally sort the grapes before pressing, so all of that extra stuff goes into the wine. Expensive makers (fortunately?) have sorting tables, and can remove up to 99% of the MOG (material other than grapes). That means that 1% or more of the juice in the wine is probably dead animals.
Eat a large Big Mac meal with a coke and you’ll have to walk for over six hours at a brisk pace to burn off all the calories
Ketchup was considered to be a medicine around 1835 and was sold as tomato pill, but many of them were fraudulent and were actually laxatives. Since then it has been found that Ketchup is good for the heart and helps reduce the risk of certain types of cancer as it helps prevent inflammation and cell damage.
Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls