salt, n.Trivia

More salt is used for de-icing roads (8%) than for human consumption (6%).

In Egypt, salting food that is served to you is considered incredibly rude.

Salt is the root of "soldier" and "salary", both of which can be traced to Latin words related to giving or receiving salt.

Salt is a common ingredient in soft drinks.

Seawater will dehydrate you but frozen seawater has only 1/10th the salt due to the freezing process.

Table salt can be considered as sand because sand is defined based on grain size, not material.

Pink Himalayan Salt contains almost no measurably additional amount of minerals

Iodine was added to salt in 1924 to combat goiters, but the iodization also resulted in notable increases in intelligence

Salt was used as currency in ancient Rome

The introduction of iodine in Morton Salt raised IQ in the US by 3.5 points

The Dead Sea is the world’s saltiest body of water; 9.6 times saltier than the ocean.

Bananas are helpful in lowering blood pressure and protecting heart health due to their high potassium and low salt content

NaCHO is the chemical formula for the salt that makes solid cheese smooth and creamy

In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.

Salting pineapples makes them sweeter, as the salt neutralizes the acidic sour taste, resulting in an amplified sweetness.