Soup Factfile

10 things you didn't know about Soup.

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Issue number 18
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  1. The most popular variety of soup is tinned.

  2. Soup was discovered by someone being overzealous in chopping vegetables for stew.

  3. The ancient Chinese used to bathe in soup to cure warts.

  4. The soup wells of Columbia produce over 1.3 gallons a year.

  5. Going 'out for soup' was all the rage in Victorian times.

  6. A coat of soup applied to a door before painting will reduce the likelyhood of flies sticking.

  7. 17.71% of soup contains dubious pieces of 'meat'.

  8. 1896 was the international year of soup.

  9. You can make soup from anything, but the best results are generated by using food.

  10. Use soup as a lubricant on delicate equipment and you'll have silent machinery.
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