Today is all about celebrating this magical treat in all its forms. Dark, milk, semisweet, white … is there any version that’s not delicious? Unwrap your favorite flavor and dig into some sweet, sweet knowledge about this flavorful food:
Mayans used cacao beans as currency.
It took Swiss chocolatier Daniel Peter eight years to create the recipe for milk chocolate.
Chocolate chip cookies were invented by accident. (The baker thought the chocolate pieces would melt and turn her plain cookies into a uniform chocolate.)
The biggest chocolate seller in the world isn’t a candy store … it’s the Brussels airport!
M&Ms have made more than 130 trips to space. Apparently astronauts consider the candy’s taste to be … wait for it … out of this world!
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