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Fruity Pebbles are literally just grains of white rice that have been flattened and then puffed back up.
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Green gummy bears are actually strawberry flavored.
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The milk you see in cereal commercials isn’t actually real. The bowl is normally filled with shortening or Styrofoam, and then white glue is added to make it look like milk.
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Apple seeds and cherry pits are toxic. They release cyanide when metabolized and can literally kill you if you eat enough of them.
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Baby carrots are just regular carrots that have been cut down.
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Beavers have an anal sac that produces castoreum, which is used in popular food and beverages as a substitute for vanilla flavoring.
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For every glass of water you drink, there’s nearly a 100% chance that a portion of it has been peed out by a dinosaur.
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Most sugar is actually bleached with bone char from animals, which is what gives it its white color.
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According to the FDA, you can typically find 30 or more fly eggs in every 100 grams (about half a cup) of tomato sauce.
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Remember that rumor about how the numbers on toaster dials represent minutes? Yeah, that’s not really true.