Adolf Frederick of Sweden died after eating an enormous meal including dessert.

Urban heat islands can be 7°C warmer than surrounding rural areas due to heat-absorbing concrete and reduced vegetation.

The identification of vitamins advanced nutritional science.

People are more creative in a blue room than a red room — red increases alertness, blue encourages open thinking.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

The avocado requires a 'pollinator paradox' — its flowers are male and female at different times to prevent self-pollination.

The first junk food, cotton candy, was invented by a dentist in 1897.

Chocolate was consumed as a bitter beverage by the Aztecs long before it was made into solid bars.

P vs NP is one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics — no one has proved whether hard problems have shortcuts.