Spot the Difference

Siamese cats are widely regarded as sleek and attractive creatures today, but they once had crossed eyes and kinked tails! Bred in what is today Thailand, the reason these cats had such a strange appearance became the subject of several legends. In one, they said a Siamese cat was given the job of guarding an important golden goblet belonging to a king. This was a loyal cat of course, and she clutched the cup so hard with her tail that it permanently bent, and stared at it so hard that her eyes became permanently cross eyed.

If you like fish, think about this! Farm-raised salmon is usually white, so salmon farmers add carotenoids, a type of plant pigment, to the fish feed to produce the natural pink color that wild salmon exhibit.

Solid chocolate was first called “edible chocolate” and was invented in 1847. This all happened in the Fry and Sons shop, where it was cooked up by a pair of British confectioners by combining cocoa butter, sugar and chocolate liquid.