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40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate.

A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet.

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

Approximately 71% of American chocolate eaters prefer to eat milk chocolate.

Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient.

Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.

Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century. During that time it was provided in the form of a drink and since drinking wine during lent was a sin, so was drinking chocolate.

During the Boer War, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greeting to the British troops that were in South Africa in 1900 in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.

During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk

In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England. The cost of chocolate was about 13 shillings per pound and was a drink that only the elite enjoyed.

In 1868, the first box of Valentine's Day chocolates were introduced by Richard Cadbury.

In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year.

In Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of candy of any country.

M&M's chocolates were chosen to be part of the astronauts food supply in 1982.

The rarest chocolate bar in the world is the Porcelana bar. There are only 20,000 of these bars produced a year, and they sell for $90 per pound.

The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink.