Butterflies taste with their feet using taste receptors on their tarsi.

Ancient Romans ate a breakfast food called ientaculum — often bread dipped in olive oil or wine.

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa created global atmospheric effects.

Black pepper was once so valuable it was used as currency and to pay ransoms.

The odds of your exact life circumstances repeating are effectively zero.

Broccoli is a man-made vegetable — it was cultivated from wild cabbage by ancient Italians.

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

Butterflies can see ultraviolet patterns on flowers.

The refrigerator allowed long-term food storage.