Here are some fun chocolate facts!

• Initially, cacao and sugar were very expensive and only those with money could afford to drink chocolate. In France, chocolate was only for members of the royal court.

• Most brands of chocolate melt at temperatures between 77 to about 91 degrees Fahrenheit.

• In 1982 - chocolate went into space with the space shuttle Columbia.

• Chocolate is not widely consumed in the tropics, even though that's where most of the world's cocoa is produced. The reason: It's too hot.

• In Switzerland dark chocolate must contain at least 35% of cocoa solids and milk chocolate at least 25% cocoa solids and at least 14% of milk solids.

• In USA milk chocolate must contain at least 10% of cocoa mass ( in USA called chocolate liquor) and 12% of milk solids. Chocolate must not contain other vegetable fats that cocoa butter.

• First white chocolate was manufactured by Nestlé in the 1930's.