Issue number 1

Installed: 29-4-2000

Factfile

10 Amazing "facts" about Cheese

1. Cheese was invented in the twelfth century BC by the ancient Mesopotamians.
   
   
2. In the sixth century, the Saxons used cheese as a building material.
   
   
3. Cheese is the Malaysian word for galvanised steel.
   
   
4. In Polynesia, a little known tribe carved hundreds of ten foot statues to their god out of cheese.
   
   
5. During the world cheese shortage of 1958, Dairy Quest developed a latex based cheese substitute.
   
   
6. During the world cheese glut of 1959, multinational firm Dairy Quest filed for bankruptcy.
   
   
7. 97.4% of the world's cheese is eaten by people.
   
   
8. Oliver Cromwell banned the use of cheese in public places.
   
   
9. Cheese is thought to be a spelling error.
   
   
10. In many countries of the world, cheese is a far more valuable commodity than gold.
    
    

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