Vanilla is the world’s favorite and popular ice cream flavor.
 

George Washington enjoyed ice cream so much he ran up a $200 ice cream bill one summer.
 

Cows have an acute sense of smell - they can smell something up to 6 miles away!
 

The natural yellow color of butter comes mainly from beta-carotene found in the grass the cows graze on.
 

An average dairy cow weighs about 1,400 pounds.
 

Milk is better for cooling your mouth after eating spicy food. Milk products contain casein, a protein that cleanses burning taste buds.
 

Most cows chew at least 50 times per minute.
 

Cows drink 35 gallons of water a day -- the equivalent of a bathtub full of water!
 

2,500 gallons of blood must flow through a cow's udder each day to maintain a production of about 6 gallons of milk per day. That's 10 tons of blood to produce 50 pounds of milk.
 

According to legend, cheese was discovered accidentally, when an Arabian merchant was carrying milk in a pouch made from the stomach of a freshly killed calf. The hot desert sun and the rennet remaining in the pouch caused the milk to separate into curds and whey.
 

The milk bottle was invented in 1884. Plastic milk containers were introduced in 1964.
 

The average U.S. cow produces 53 lb of milk per day, or 6.2 gallons
 

Poppea, the wife of Domitius Nero always traveled with 500 nursing asses so she could take milk baths to keep her skin smooth and supple.
 

In the Tang Dynasty in China in about 700AD, milk was used for bathing and not for drinking.
 

At the 1904 World Fair, an ice cream vendor from Syria ran out of dishes so he sold ice cream on a rolled up wafer and created the ice cream cone.