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sugar was one of the first pharmaceutical ingredients
used, as it still is today, to mask the bitter
taste of medicines?
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in 1899, the very
first carton was used to pack sugar? This
revolutionized the sugar business, greatly
improving upon the crude wooden barrels from
which sugar was originally scooped for
customers.
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you know...
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that in the late
16th Century, a mere teaspoon of sugar cost the
equivalent of five dollars in London?
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you know...
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that sugar is the
only taste humans are born craving?
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you know...
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a can of Coke has
39 grams of sugar and a can of Pepsi has 41
grams of sugar. That is about seven teaspoons or
13 lumps of sugar per can!
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Lemons
contain more sugar than Strawberries.
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When
the sun explodes, it will compress itself and
become so dense that a piece of it the size of a
sugar cube will weigh the equivalent of 1 ton.
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The
trick to curing hiccups is to get the nerves
that regulate breathing synchronized by taking a
teaspoon of granulated sugar.
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you know...
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Sugar hardens
asphalt. It slows the setting of ready-mixed
concrete and glue.
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you know...
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Sugar
is used in leather tanning, printers' inks and
dyes and even in textile sizing and finishing
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you know...
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Chemical manufacturers use sugar to grow penicillin.
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'Sure' and 'Sugar' are the only two words in
the English language that are spelt 'su' and
pronounced 'sh'.
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