15 Food Facts That Are Hard To Believe But Totally True

    The world is strange and delicious place.

    1. In 2010, a professor at Kansas State University ate nothing but Hostess snacks, Doritos, sugary cereals, and Oreos for two months and lost 27 pounds.

    2. A woman set a world record by eating a 72-ounce steak in less than three minutes.

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    Molly Shuyer, a mother of four from Minnesota, weighs only 120 pounds and DEMOLISHED the previous record held by a dude named "Furious Pete," who ate the steak in six minutes and 48 seconds.

    3. A man was admitted into the ER complaining of being drunk without having a sip of alcohol. It was discovered that the man was unintentionally brewing beer in his gut.

    4. In 1998, Michael Cameron, a student at Greenbrier High School, 130 miles east of Atlanta, was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on "Coke Day."

    5. Fredric Baur, the man who invented the Pringles chips can, asked to be buried in one.

    6. On Oct. 30, 2009, Hjörtur Smárason bought the last cheeseburger ever sold at the last Icelandic McDonald's before it closed for good the next day. Instead of eating the burger, he chose to preserve it — and gave it to the National Museum of Iceland.

    7. There is a Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois, that has no relation to Burger King Corp., the fast food chain. Because of a 1968 court ruling, no Burger King Corp. restaurant is allowed to be built in a 20-mile radius of the Burger King in Mattoon.

    8. In 2006, a secretary at the Coca-Cola headquarters was arrested after stealing a vial of a secret new product and tried selling it to Pepsi for $1.5 million.

    9. In 2016, police officers in Mexico City prevented a man from jumping off a bridge by buying him tacos.

    10. In 2011, an elderly Memphis woman who had ordered a pepperoni pizza every day for years was rescued by a delivery person when she failed to place an order for three days straight.

    11. In Albuquerque, a man was arrested and sent to jail by his own mother when he broke into her house to steal an entire batch of her delicious pozole.

    12. Back in 2012, in South Korea, Dunkin' Donuts sprayed a coffee scent in public buses every time its jingle played.

    13. MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, once targeted an online English al-Qaeda magazine and replaced its bomb-making instructions with cupcake recipes.

    14. Back in 2012, in eastern France bees had begun producing blue- and green-colored honey due to a nearby biogas plant that processes M&M's waste.

    15. And finally, a death-row inmate ordered a massive final meal that was supposed to include a can of SpaghettiOs...but he never got the can. His final words were, "I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.”