1.Cleopatra believed that pickles made her beautiful.
2.Most scholars believe Cleopatra killed herself by inviting a cobra to bite her, but this isn't true. She actually choked on a pickle, poor dear.
3.In Fiji, food was pickled in holes in the ground lined with banana leaves. Parents wouldn't let their daughters marry a guy unless he had impressive pickle pits and beautiful pickles.
4.Meryl Streep won her third Oscar for playing a dill pickle in The Pickles of Madison County.
5.Archeologists believe ancient Mesopotamians pickled stuff as early as 2400 BC.
6.At Mississippi state fairs, they sell Kool Aid pickles—dill pickles soaked in Kool Aid. That's sort of weird, but no judgements! It's weird though.
7.Mississippi's state bird is a pickle.
8.In America, dill pickles sell twice as much as sweet pickles. And that's the way it should be, because sweet pickles are horrifying.
9.It's a common misconception that pickles are cured cucumbers. They're actually cucumbers who died but can't move on from the earthly realm.
10.The Department of Agriculture estimates that the average American eats 8.5 lbs of pickles a year, which is only about 1% the amount of pickles you should be eating.
11.Napoleon thought pickles made his armies strong and offered $250,000 to anyone who could develop a way to preserve food safely.
12.In the original Rugrats pilot, Tommy Pickles was an actual pickle. In fact, all the characters were pickles and the show was called Pickle Rats.
13.Christopher Columbus rationed pickles to his homies on their voyage to America. He even grew cucumbers during some downtime in Haiti.
14.Speaking of people who discovered a continent that was already inhabited, Amerigo Vespucci was a merchant before he became an explorer.
15.One night in 1973, Phil Spector got so drunk that he gave a record deal to a pickle. The pickle had one hit song, "Pretty Little Pickle Eyes," which reached number 7 on the charts.
16.Eskimos have 50 words for "snow," but over 500 words for "pickle."
17.Thomas Jefferson once wrote on his Tumblr: "On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar."
18.Steve Trotter, the youngest guy to ever go over Niagara Falls, did so in pickle barrels.
19.Steve Trotter is 1/16th pickle on his mother's side.
20.Pickles are accepted as currency in certain parts of Montana and Idaho.
