Start the day off cool and sweet

Hold onto your hats boys, today is National Eat Ice-Cream For Breakfast Day.

It may not be the healthiest choice, but today is the official day that your diet can fall by the wayside and you can treat yourself to your favourite flavoured ice-cream as the first meal of the day. This day only comes once a year so chill out, sweeten up and get ready for pure indulgence.

Here are 10 facts about ice cream to get you going:

1. Ancient Greeks in fifth century BC enjoyed a dessert similar to ice-cream, but the ice-cream churn was only invented years later in the 1840s.

2. The top five ice-cream consuming countries in the world are New Zealand, USA, Australia, Finland and Sweden.

3. The tallest ice-cream in the world was over nine feet tall and scooped in Italy.

4. Chocolate syrup is the world’s most popular ice-cream topping.

5. It takes about 50 licks to finish a single scoop of ice-cream.

6. Brain freeze occurs when ice-cream touches the roof of your mouth causing blood vessels in the head to dilate.

7. The most profitable day for ice-cream sellers is almost always a Sunday.

8. Alexander the Great loved to eat snow flavoured with nectar and honey.

9. Hawaii is home to the “ice-cream bean”, a fruit that tastes just like vanilla ice-cream.

10. The end of World War II was celebrated by eating ice-cream.

Are you brave enough to eat ice-cream for breakfast today?

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