These Wild Food Facts Will Make You Think Twice About Your Next Meal

Bug Guts

The red food-coloring carmine is made from boiled cochineal bugs, a type of beetle.

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  • In 2009, Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook, you were entitled to a free Whopper. The person you unfriended would get a message telling them that their friendship is worth less than a Whopper.
  • People write love letters to trees in Australia via email.
  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.