Competitive hot dog eating requires athletes to dunk buns in water to compress them for faster consumption.

The glycemic index of cooked and cooled pasta is lower than freshly cooked pasta — retrograded starch resists digestion.

Bread left to rise too long develops an off-taste from over-fermentation — yeast byproducts accumulate.

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

King Tut’s tomb curse legend began after mysterious deaths of excavators.

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

Butterflies taste with their feet, using receptors on their legs.

The Tour de France cyclists burn approximately 8,000 calories per stage — more than 3 times a normal person's daily need.

Humans can survive weeks with minimal calories.