It takes 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. By law, if something is labelled ‘peanut butter’, it should contain at least 90% peanuts. Americans love peanuts so much, that even astronaut Alan Shepard brought a peanut with him to the moon!

Japanese schools are famous for providing children with daily lunch – known as "kyushokku". Education authorities ensure all children are fed a varied and healthy diet on a daily basis. Popular dishes include natto (fermented soy-beans, an acquired taste), miso soup, Japanese curry and on special occasions – whale meat!

"Tex-Mex" cuisine is a fusion of Mexican and American dishes primarily coming from the creation of the Tejano people living in Texas. You might be surprised to know that Tex Mex has imported flavors from other spicy cuisines, such as those from the Canary Islands.

July 7th is "Chocolate Day" so make sure you eat plenty of it this year! Chocolate was first officially brought to Europe on July 7th, 1550. However, some sources suggest it hit the continent’s shores as far back as 1504 thanks to a certain sweet-tooth by the name of Christopher Columbus.

The traditional baguette only has 4 ingredients – flour, yeast, salt and water. During the 19th century people ate 3 baguettes a day. Nowadays, diets have changed and people eat more pasta than bread.

How do they get gummy candies to shine with that ever-so-appetizing glossy sheen? Well, we hate to be the bearer of ... unappetizing news, but the candies are actually coated with carnauba wax, just like cars are! Still, it's hard not to indulge in a few gummy bears every now and then!

Titanium dioxide is a substance that can be found in paint, sunscreen and laundry detergent. It is used to make whites appear even whiter. It can also be found in a variety of foodstuffs like ranch dressing, coffee creamer and icing! Yikes!

If you like fish, think about this! Farm-raised salmon is usually white, so salmon farmers add carotenoids, a type of plant pigment, to the fish feed to produce the natural pink color that wild salmon exhibit.

Do you like smothering your French fries in ketchup? You might not know it, but ketchup was actually once used to cure some medical ailments such as diarrhea and indigestion. A doctor in Ohio even once invented a concentrated ketchup pill!

This is pretty cool. Scientists in Germany have concluded that peanut butter can be turned into diamonds because it is so rich in carbon. All one would have to do is extract the oxygen from the carbon dioxide and then apply immense pressure on the carbon left behind. And then voila! Diamonds!