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Hershey's Kisses got their name from the kissing sound the machine that deposits the chocolate on the conveyor belt makes.
The film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was financed by Quaker Oats to promote its new Wonka Bar candy. This is also why the film is called "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" instead of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" like the book it's based on.
In 1947 hundreds of Canadian kids went on strike and boycotted chocolate after the price of a chocolate bar jumped from 5 to 8 cents.
White chocolate technically isn't chocolate, but you probably already knew that.
A 2004 study in London found that 70% of people would reveal their passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar.
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German chocolate cake has nothing to do with Germany. It's named after its inventor, Sam German.
There is a little caffeine in chocolate. Most bars have about 10 milligrams of caffeine in them, but darker chocolates can have as much caffeine as a can of Coca-Cola.
The largest chocolate bar ever weighed just over 12,770 pounds.
Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica. Irish botanist Sir Hans Sloane is usually given credit for mixing chocolate with milk when he was in Jamaica in the early 1700s, though it's likely he wasn't the first person on the island to do so.
Chocolate gives you a more intense mental high and gets your heart pounding more than kissing does.
The ancient Maya are believed to be the first people to regularly grow cacao trees and drink chocolate. The Aztecs got it later, but they had to trade for cacao because they couldn't grow the trees.
Theobromine, the compound in chocolate that makes it poisonous to dogs, can kill a human as well. You'd have to be a real glutton to go out this way though, as an average 10-year-old child would have to eat 1,900 Hershey's miniature milk chocolates to reach a fatal dose.
The blood in Psycho's famous shower scene was actually chocolate syrup.
There is a correlation between the amount of chocolate a country consumes on average and the number of Nobel Laureates that country has produced.
It takes approximately 400 cacao beans to make one pound (450 gr.) of chocolate.
The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
White Chocolate isn't technically Chocolate, as it contains no cocoa solids or cocoa liquor.
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Hershey's Kisses got their name from the kissing sound the machine that deposits the chocolate on the conveyor belt makes.
The film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was financed by Quaker Oats to promote its new Wonka Bar candy. This is also why the film is called "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" instead of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" like the book it's based on.
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