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There’s a reason why airplane food doesn’t taste good. Your taste buds react differently because of dry air and a pressurised cabin.
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There might be bugs in your favourite snacks. Carmine, a red dye, is made from crushed bugs! It’s used in candies, sodas, ketchup, canned cherries, and red velvet cakes.
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Want to test how fresh the eggs in your fridge are? Put them in a glass of cold water! Fresh eggs will sink, and any egg that floats needs to be in the garbage.
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Rajma Chawal would not have been a thing if kidney beans hadn’t been brought to the Indian subcontinent from Mexico.