A jewel thief made off with $28 million dollars of gems in 2007 because he was able to gain the trust of the guards working the bank in Antwerp, Belgium, by repeatedly offering them chocolate. The blood in Psycho's famous shower scene was actually...
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A jewel thief made off with $28 million dollars of gems in 2007 because he was able to gain the trust of the guards working the bank in Antwerp, Belgium, by repeatedly offering them chocolate. The blood in Psycho's famous shower scene was actually chocolate syrup. At one point the Nazis plotted to assassinate Winston Churchill with an exploding bar of chocolate. The obromine, the compound in chocolate that makes it poisonous to dogs, can kill a human as well. You'd have to be a real glutton to go out this way though, as an average 10-year-old child would have to eat 1,900 Hershey's miniature milk chocolates to reach a fatal dose. The ancient Maya are believed to be the first people to regularly grow cacao trees and drink chocolate. The Aztecs got it later, but they had to trade for cacao because they couldn't grow the trees. The word "chocolate" comes from the Aztec word "xocoatl," which referred to the bitter, spicy drink the Aztecs made from cacao beans. In fact, chocol
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