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5 hot bacon facts
Gives you good appetite, because if you like bacon on a bagel we have put together these 5 fascinating facts about bacon.
Whether you like it crispy or soft and soft - with ketchup or maple syrup, we know you'll enjoy watching this amazingly entertaining video.
You can read the truth below or scroll down a bit deeper to watch the video!
Did you know that the first meal ever eaten on the moon was bacon?
When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin sat down for their first meal after a successful landing, they had bacon, peaches, biscuits and coffee.
Scientists are experimenting with growing bacon in the lab.
Researchers are already using pig stem cells, hoping it will make meat production more humane.
So the scientists are creating bacon in the lab… what could happen ?!
September 3 is International Bacon Day.
That means wherever you are in the world, you can celebrate… bacon style!
People have been eating bacon for a long time.
In fact, this is one of the oldest processed meats in history - the Chinese started salting pork belly more than 3,000 years ago.
Bacon mania!
Over the past decade, our utter obsession with bacon has led to a number of exotic bacon products.
Things like, bacon-flavored chocolate and bacon mayonnaise are just the beginning.
You can buy bacon soap, perfume, toothpaste, dental floss and even bacon flavored coke!
So you got it, those are five absolutely delicious, completely real facts about bacon.
