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Random Facts About...Chocolate!

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Here there are 10 random curiosities about one of the most delicious thing in the world: chocolate! 1.  A ztecs used cocoa bean as currency. A rabbit was worth 10  beans, while a slave 100. 2. T he correlation between chocolate and pimples is only a legend . This link has never been scientifically proven. 3.   A chocolate flake provides an adult of enough energy for a 46 meters walk. To make a round-the-world walk it takes 870.000 4. T he Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer of cocoa. It produces 1.51 millions of cocoa beans per year, a third of the global demand. 5.   The world's largest chocolate bar weighed 5827 Kg, pretty much like a big elephant. It was produced in Derbyshire (UK) in 2011. 6.   Switzerland consumes chocolate more than any other country. On average a Swiss eats 13 Kg of chocolate per year. 7.   The most sold chocolate bar is Snicker: every year the revenues amounted to 2 billion dollars. Snicker's i...