Mars’ Snickers candy bar is the top selling candy bar in the world with over $2 billion in sales in 2016. It was named after the Mars family’s favorite horse. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://kxrb.com/snickers-the-top-candy-bar-named-after-a-horse/
Food
These food facts are sure to satiate your weird and fun food fact appetite!
WTF Fun Fact – Cooking Oil Fuel
All of McDonald’s delivery trucks in the UK have been running on used cooking oil from their restaurants since 2007. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Official McNuggets
McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets come in four official shapes: bell, bone, boot, and ball. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2051151/why-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnuggets-come-only-4-shapes
WTF Fun Fact – Hot Dog Hawker
A 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets. He now sells nearly 150 hot dogs a day. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Popcorn Markup
Movie theatre popcorn has an average markup of over 1200% percent. A bag of popcorn costs roughly $.37 and can sell for upwards of $5. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.rd.com/advice/saving-money/10-outrageous-markups-youd-never-guess-you-were-paying/
WTF Fun Fact – Eat Spicy
A recent study found people who eat spicy foods tend to live longer. Consumption of hot red chili peppers is associated with a 13% reduction in total mortality – primarily in deaths due to heart disease or stroke. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/frequent-spicy-food-consumption-linked-with-lower-death-risk/
WTF Fun Fact – Coffee Taste
Without its smell, coffee would have only a sour or bitter taste due to the organic acids. You can test this by holding your nose as you take a sip. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/21/1537244
WTF Fun Fact – Eat More With Wine
A 2014 study found that having a glass or two of wine before a meal caused people to eat nearly 25% more food during the meal. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Marmot Causes The Plague
A Mongolian couple believed a folk remedy and consumed raw marmot meat and organs to improve their health. They ended up contracting the plague and died shortly thereafter. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65438-mongolian-couple-plague-raw-marmot.html
WTF Fun Fact – Japan Ramen Discount
In an effort to reduce car accidents involving elderly drivers, a Japanese restaurant is offering a 10% discount at a ramen restaurant if they hand in their driver’s license. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Fish Turducken
Chef Josh Niland has created a fish turducken. His seafood version features yellowfin tuna loin, wrapped in a cod fillet, wrapped in an enormous tail-on ocean trout fillet. The entire recipe will cost you roughly $250. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Moonshine Ingredients
Cocktails became popular during Prohibition because juices were needed to hide the taste of some of the ingredients in the moonshine like dead rats, rotten meat, wood tar, and others. – WTF Fun Facts
Fun Food Fact – Chocolate Chip Cookie Deal
Ruth Wakefield was the original creator of the chocolate-chip cookie. She sold the recipe for the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie to Nestlé for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/06/25/the-inventor-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie-sold-her-recipe-to-nestle-for-a-lifetime-supply-of-chocolate/
Random Funny Fact – Thomas Jefferson Mac And Cheese
Thomas Jefferson helped popularize mac and cheese in America by serving it to his dinner guests during his Presidency. He even had his own recipe. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/macaroni
WTF Fun Fact – Brad Pitt Cookbook
There’s a book called ‘Fat Brad The Cookbook’. It is based on all the foods that actor Brad Pitt has eaten in his movies. – WTF Fun Facts
You can download the book here.
Source: http://www.papermag.com/fat-brad-cook-book-brad-pitt-recipes-1987073777.html
Fun Fact – Umami Taste
Umami is the recently identified fifth taste. It is described as a savory flavor and is caused by glutamate, an amino acid. It is associated with foods like tomatoes, meat, cheese, mushrooms, and more. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.rd.com/food/recipes-cooking/13-foods-with-natural-umami/
Fun Food Fact – Taste Modifier Fruit
The Miracle Berry, or synsepalum dulcificum, is a fruit from West Africa which contains the taste modifier Miraculin. When you eat the fruit, the miraculin molecules bind to the tongue causing sour foods to taste sweet. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
Food Fact – Watermelon App
There’s an iPhone app to detect a ripe watermelon. You repeatedly knock on the fruit with phone’s microphone nearby and it analyzes the sound. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/melon-meter-ios-app-listens-for-ripe-watermelons/