| Madagascar grows 80% of the world's vanilla bean used for ice cream. A housewife named Nancy Johnson invented the hand-cranked ice-cream churn. A Syrian vendor at the World's Fair, named Ernest Hamwi, invented the ice-cream cone in 1904. The United States of America is the #1 ice-cream consuming nation in the world. To be considered 'ice cream,' ice cream needs to have a butterfat content of higher than 10 percent. |
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