1. Cacao beans, where chocolate comes from, were once used as currency.
2. The average person in Switzerland consumes 8.8kg of chocolate every single year.
4. Imposter alert: White chocolate is not technically chocolate!
5. There's actually a chocolate-themed amusement park that you can visit.
6. Chocolate milk officially originated in Jamaica.
7. Smelling chocolate can reduce anxiety.
8. There's a fourth type of chocolate that was launched in 2017 — RUBY!
9. The botanical name of the chocolate tree is Theobroma cacao, and "theobroma" means "food of the gods" in Latin.
10. Chocolate is actually healthy! It's proven to have more antioxidants than green tea.
11. World Chocolate Day is celebrated on July 7, every year.
13. It takes 400 cacao beans to make just one pound, or 450 grams of chocolate.
14. 70 percent of the world's cacao beans come from just four West African countries — Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria.
15. Around 90 million chocolate Easter eggs are sold across the United States of America, every year.
18. What's a person who compulsively eats a lot of chocolate and constantly craves it called? A chocoholic.
19. You can also have a fear or strong aversion to chocolate! It's called Xocolatophobia.
