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  1. The dark chocolate has only 27 mg of caffeine. The cup of green tea contains 40 mg of caffeine, the black tea has 140 mg and coffee 200 mg.
  2. The Spanish recorded that 100 beans would buy a slave and a good mule could be purchased for 50 beans.
  3. In 1765, Dr. John Baker and Irish immigrant John Hannon opened a small shop inside a cocoa mill along the banks of a river outside Boston.
  4. Chocolate was initially brought to the States for medicinal purposes and sold in apothecaries.
  5. The majority of today’s chocolate is grown on the Forestero cocoa tree.
  6. The Criollo tree offers the purest and richest cocoa beans and accounts for about 10 percent of the world’s cocoa harvest.
  7. Almost 45 percent of the world’s cocoa is grown along Africa’s Ivory Coast, where average annual yield has been around 1.3 million tons.
  8. The Cadbury Creme Egg plant in Bournville, England, can produce 66,000 Creme Eggs every hour, or more than 1.5 million eggs a day.
  9. Depending on their quality, cocoa beans are roasted for 25 to 50 minutes at temperatures ranging from 230 degrees F to 300 degrees F.
  10. Years ago, when harvesting was over, a dance was performed on the cocoa seeds which had been put out to dry in the sun.
  11. Great chocolate manufacturers choose their beans in the same way as a wine-maker chooses his or her grape varieties
  12. Snickers Bar was invented in 1930.
  13. In 1981, the Standard Brands Company realized they had somehow lost the original recipes for the Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars.
  14. The Zagnut candy bar was introduced in 1930.
  15. The Three Musketeers bar was introduced in 1932. The original 3 Musketeers had 3 bars in one wrapper, each with a different flavor.
  16. Mars introduced the Snickers bar in 1930 (it was named for a horse).
  17. The Milky Way candy bar was introduced by Frank C. Mars of Minnesota in 1923.
  18. Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar was invented in 1900
  19. Cacao tree can have 50-100,000 flowers in a 12-month period, but because pollinization is difficult, only one flower in 500 will bear fruit.
  20. Cocoa pods are depicted in artwork dating back to the 15th century.