Today I Found Out

How Many Burgers Come from One Cow? ...and 8 other food facts (2015x31)

: 14, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: Glow in the Dark Urine... and 8 Other Animal Facts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnOxPcZGT5c The Sun is White... and 8 other Astronomy Facts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPEIMwq4qiw Find more interesting quick facts here: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/category/quick-facts/ In this video: 1. Other than the color of the shell, there is no difference between commercial brown shelled chicken eggs and a white shelled ones. Non-commercial eggs from chickens may taste slightly different, due to difference in diet, but a chicken that lays white eggs will produce an egg that is by taste and nutrition the same as the eggs produced by a chicken that lays brown eggs with the same diet. (QF: 585) 2. An average beef cow (200 kg of usable meat) produces enough meat to make about 4,500 hamburgers at McDonalds. (QF: 482) 3. About 3 billion pounds of potatoes are used to make McDonald’s fries every year. This is about 8% of all potatoes grown in the United States or a half a percent of all potatoes grown in the world per year. (QF: 479) 4. Common foods that are naturally radioactive include potatoes, bananas, sunflower seeds, Brazil nuts, and kidney beans, among others. Brazil nuts are the most radioactive by far at 6600 picocuries per kg or about 1.875 BED (banana equivalent dose). The radium in Brazil nuts does not come from especially high levels of radium in the soil where the trees grow, but rather the very extensive root systems the trees develop, which cover a much larger area of the soil than most trees. 5. The most expensive coffee is coffee where the berries go through the digestive tract of the Kopi Luwak (a small cat-sized Indonesian ani