living is like a boxful of burnt umber …
1.Cacao beans, where chocolate comes from,were once used as currency.
2.The average person in Switzerlandconsumes 8.8kg of chocolateevery single year.
3.Soldiers deployed in World War II hadchocolate bars in their rations.
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4.Imposter alert: White chocolate isnot technically chocolate!
5.There’s actually achocolate-themed amusement parkthat you can visit.
6.Chocolate milk officiallyoriginated in Jamaica.
7.Smelling chocolate canreduce anxiety.
8.There’s afourth type of chocolatethat was launched in 2017 — RUBY!
9.The botanical name of the chocolate tree is Theobroma cacao, and “theobroma"means “food of the gods” in Latin.
10.Chocolate is actually healthy! It’s proven to havemore antioxidants than green tea.
11.World Chocolate Day is celebrated onJuly 7, every year.
12.People only started “eating chocolate"after 1847.
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13.It takes400 cacao beansto make just one pound, or 450 grams of chocolate.
14.70 percent of the world’s cacao beans come fromjust four West African countries— Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria.
15.Around90 million chocolate Easter eggsare sold across the United States of America, every year.
16.The chocolate river inWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factorywasn’t all chocolate, after all. Ew!
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17.Themost expensive chocolate in the worldcosts a whopping $2,600 (or ₹2,16,307)!
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18.What’s a person who compulsively eats a lot of chocolate and constantly craves it called?A chocoholic.
19.You can also have a fear or strong aversion to chocolate! It’s calledXocolatophobia.
