Blue cheese gets its distinctive veins from Penicillium mold injected into it during production.

You are more likely to die from extreme heat than extreme cold.

The word 'salary' comes from 'sal' (salt) — Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt.

The world's most expensive spice, saffron, requires 150,000 hand-picked crocus flowers to produce one kilogram.

Great Zimbabwe was a powerful African city-state.

The flavor of artificial strawberry is based on a single variety of wild strawberry that no longer commercially exists.

Galileo was threatened with torture for his scientific beliefs.

Almonds are not nuts but drupes, the same category as peaches, cherries, and plums.

Pineapples take about two years to grow to full size.