Monkeys found chocolate first, not people.
Traces of chocolate have been found in ancient Mayan pottery - from 3,400 years ago!
The word Chocolate comes from the Aztec words for "Bitter Water" .
Both the Mayans and Aztecs associate chocolate with fertility!
The first English chocolate house opened in London in 1657, 53 years after the word "Chocolate" was first used in English. Chocolate is poisonous to horses, dogs, cats, rodents and parrots - but essential for people!
50 million people depend upon cocoa for a living.
Queen Victoria sent 100,000 boxes of chocolate to soldiers fighting in the Boer War on New Year's Day, 1900. The Tropicana casino in Atlantic City sells a super deluxe chocolate brownie - the "Brownie Extraordinaire with Saint Louis" for $1,000!
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