We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share random food facts that totally blew their mind. Here are the "OMG, WHAT?!" results.
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Pringles once had a lawsuit trying to prove that they weren’t really potato chips.
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When you eat figs, technically, you're also eating wasps.
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The largest wholesale purchaser of kale, before it became a craze, was Pizza Hut.
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Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kohlrabi all come from the same plant!
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The bananas we eat today are clones.
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Chimichanga literally means "thingamajig" in Spanish.
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Potatoes are actually 80% water and 20% solid.
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Haribo green gummy bears aren't lime or green apple flavored, but strawberry!
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Humans share 60% of our DNA with bananas.
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Shredded cheese has cellulose, which is a wood product (aka sawdust) so that it doesn't stick together.
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Pineapple juice can help tenderize meat (thank you, Food Wars!).
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Strawberries aren't berries, but bananas are!
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There are two types of hot dog buns: regular and New England style.
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Eating lollipops is just swallowing flavored saliva.
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Apples have small traces of cyanide in their seeds!!!
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I recently found out that Fritos only have three ingredients: corn, corn oil, and salt?!
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Baby carrots are just regular carrots that have been shaved down to the bite-size pieces we see bagged in stores.
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Ice cream sometimes contains a form of seaweed in it (as a thickening agent) called red algae.
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An ear of corn used to be way smaller than it currently is.
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Hawaiian pizza was invented in...CANADA.
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