November 23rd, 2025 | No Comments »
The claim that eating turkey can make people particularly sleepy has long been shared around Thanksgiving (and sometimes Christmas) dinner tables. Fans of the sitcom “Seinfeld” may recall one episode in which Jerry and George attempted to put Jerry’s girlfriend, Celia, to sleep using alcohol and turkey. “What is that stuff in turkey that makes […]
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March 21st, 2025 | No Comments »
One account attributes a supposed bean soup mandate to a Minnesota senator who expressed his fondness for it more than a century ago. Claim: “Bean soup has been offered on the U.S. Senate dining room menu every day since 1903”. True, for more than a century, bean soup has essentially been on the menu of […]
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September 1st, 2024 | No Comments »
The story that the first human to consume coffee was inspired by witnessing goats dancing after eating coffee berries has been told since at least the 17th century. The earliest known version of the claim was published in 1671. However, because no primary-source records describing the origin of the human consumption of coffee are known […]
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