Pringles are not technically potato chips — they are made from a dough of dehydrated potatoes, wheat starch, and flours.

Sushi originally referred to fermented fish preserved in salt and rice — the rice was discarded before eating.

Ice cream was likely first developed in China using flavored ice or frozen cream, centuries before it reached Europe.

The Greek Titan Prometheus was punished for giving fire to humans by being chained and having his liver eaten daily by an eagle.

The Great Fire of London began in a bakery in 1666.

An egg's albumen (white) contains over 40 different proteins.

The human genome contains approximately 3 billion base pairs and around 20,000 protein-coding genes.

Vanilla is the second most expensive spice in the world after saffron, because each flower must be hand-pollinated.

The refrigerator allowed long-term food storage.