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- Jackie Gleason starred as Minnesota Fats in the movie The Hustler.
- The term "carbohydrates" comes from the Greek word for "sugar."
- Americans spent over $20 billion on cholesterol-lowering drugs in 2007.
- Olive Oyl, Popeye's love, first appeared in the comic Thimble Theater in 1919.
- Sugar Ray Leonard took his moniker from famed boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
- Salt was regularly used in Egyptian funerals dating back to the third millennium BC.
- A water clock was found in the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I.
- The word salad derives from the Latin for "salt" or sal.
- The process for crystallizing sugar was discovered in India around 350 AD.
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