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12626. Food Facts
Marmite, a favourite English spread for toast, is made with the left-over yeasty sludge from brewing beer.
12627. Food Facts
Snake wine in China is a very potent alcoholic drink, spiced with juice from the gall bladder of a live snake.
12628. Food Facts
Crispy fried duck or chicken feet are a delicacy in China. In the USA, whole chicken feet are sometimes pickled or made into soup.
12629. Food Facts
In both Sicily and Japan, people eat the raw roe (eggs) of sea urchins.
12630. Food Facts
In the Philippines, the eyes are considered the tastiest part of a steamed fish. Suck out the gloop and spit out the hard cornea.
12631. Food Facts
Eskimos have been known to make seagull wine – put a seagull in a bottle of water, wait for it to go off – drink!
12632. Food Facts
In Hungary, scrambled eggs are fried up with the blood from a freshly slaughtered pig.
12633. Food Facts
Some prisoners have big appetites. Richard Beavers, executed in Texas in 1994, ate for his last meal: 6 pieces of French toast with butter and syrup, 6 barbecued spare ribs, 6 pieces of bacon (burnt), 4 scrambled eggs, 5 sausage patties, French fries with ketchup, 3 slices of cheese, 2 pieces of yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing and 4 cartons of milk.
12634. Food Facts
In Wales, rook pie was considered a tasty way to get rid of a bird that might otherwise eat the crops.
12635. Food Facts
Nutria are a large rodent that live some of the time in the water. They are a pest in Louisiana, where local authorities are encouraging people to eat them – with little success, as they don't taste too good.
12636. Food Facts
In the southern USA, squirrel brains are cooked still in the head. You then crack the skull and scoop the brains out with fingers and fork.
12637. Food Facts
A traditional dish in London is eels boiled and served cold in jelly.
12638. Food Facts
In Sweden, people make dumplings from flour, reindeer blood and salt.
12639. Food Facts
Biltong is favoured as a snack by rugby supporters in South Africa. It's dried strips of any meat – elephant, eland, antelope…
12640. Food Facts
In Japan, the blowfish is a delicacy, even though it contains a poison gland which, if not properly removed, kills anyone who eats it.
12641. Food Facts
In Indonesia, deep fried monkey toes are eaten by sucking the meat straight off the bone.
12642. Food Facts
An omelette costing $1000 (£530) and called the Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata was sold by a restaurant in New York. It contains a whole lobster and 280 grams (10 ounces) of caviar, as well as eggs, cream, potato and whiskey.
12643. Food Facts
In Georgia, there is a price limit of $20 on the last meal a prisoner can order (2004 price limit).
12644. Food Facts
Aztecs gave people who were to be human sacrifices many last meals – they fattened them up for up to a year.
12645. Food Facts
In the Philippines, chicken heads may be made into stew or barbecued whole.
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If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person die
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