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Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cacao, an evergreen tropical shrub.
The seed pods grow out of the trunks of the cacao tree, rather than at the ends of the branches.
The Astecs called the bitter drink made from the cacao seeds 'xocolati' meaning bitter.
Chocolate, as we eat it today, contains serotonin, phenylethylamine (the "love chemical") and endorphins that, it is claimed, can relieve pain and reduce stress.
The lethal dosage of chocolate for a human is about 10kgs!
Marie Antoinette was the first Queen to bestow the title 'by appointment to the Queen' to her personal chocolatier in 1770.
According to the Guinness World Book of Records, The largest chocolate bar weighed 3580 kg and was made by Elah Dufour - Novi in Alessandria, Piemonte, Italy, on 11 October 2007.
The melting point of cocoa butter is just below human body temperature, that's why chocolate melts in your mouth.
Chocolate is addictive this we all know but it is also addictive and deadly to dogs, so please be careful and not give our four legged friends chocolate, no matter how much he begs!
Chocolate is not high in caffeine as some people think and you would actually need to eat 10 bars to equate to 1 cup of coffee.
Americans are responsible for eating half the worlds chocolate products.
Chocolate syrup was used to simulate blood in the movies Psycho and Night of the Living Dead.
Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.