Artificial banana flavouring is based on an extinct banana. You may notice that your banana-flavoured food products don’t taste quite like the real thing. This is because the commercially used banana flavouring is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950s.
100 Mind-Blowing Commercially Facts
Wayne’s World was filmed in two weeks. The critically and commercially acclaimed 90s comedy only took two weeks to shoot. Pretty surprising for a 95-minute film.
Hawaii is the only state to grow coffee commercially.
Most lipstick contains fish scales. Most of the lipsticks made are the byproduct of fish scales called pearl essence or pearlescence as it turns out that the stuff that makes the fish scales shine makes one’s lips shiny as well. Pearlessence comes from commercially fished herring. There are synthetic versions available as well but they are not widely used.
Almost all commercially grown artichokes (99.9 per cent) come from California. One town in particular, Castroville, is nicknamed “the Artichoke Capital of the World.”