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Some Japanese specialties are risky business! Fugu, or pufferfish, must be prepared by chefs who have trained for at least 3 years, as the animal contains high levels of the poison tetrodotoxin. In fact, it is so poisonous (200 times more deadly than cyanide, and with no known antidote) that it is the one dish the Emperor of Japan is forbidden from eating.

Donald Lau is considered the father of fortune cookies because he wrote the fortunes within for 30 years. He was hired at the company (called Wanton Foods) because he was employee who spoke the best English at the time. The company was known for producing 4.5 million cookies a day.

It’s fascinating that the largest animal ever to have lived on earth, the blue whale, feeds on nothing but krill, shrimp-like creatures that are among the smallest sea-dwellers. But it takes 36 metric tons of krill a day to allay an adult blue whale’s hunger. That’s the weight of 25 cars!