| - Monkeys found chocolate first, not people.
- Traces of chocolate have been found in ancient Mayan pottery - from 3,400 years ago!
- The word Chocolate comes from the Aztec words for "Bitter Water"
- Both the Mayans and Aztecs associate chocolate with fertility! What do they know that we don't?
- The first English chocolate house opened in London in 1657, 53 years after the word "Chocolate" was first used in English.
- Chocolate is poisonous to horses, dogs, cats, rodents and parrots - but essential for people!
- 50 million people depend upon cocoa for a living.
- Queen Victoria sent 100,000 boxes of chocolate to soldiers fighting in the Boer War on New Year's Day, 1900.
- The Tropicana casino in Atlantic City sells a super deluxe chocolate brownie - the "Brownie Extraordinaire with Saint Louis" for $1,000!
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