I missed yesterday. It was Aruba's National Flag and Anthem Day. You'll never know.
Anyway, in honour of Chocolate Caramel Day, here are 10 things that are almost definitely true about chocolate caramel.
1. Chocolate caramel was invented in 1974, by a Danish chef named Peter Peterssen. He wasn't a very good chef. He was trying to make gravy. He got sacked.
2. Chocolate caramel is most commonly made by combining together sugar, butter, volcanic ash and the tears of small children. The ingredients are mixed together in a velvet hat, and then left to ferment for 14 years.
3. Chocolate caramel is a controlled substance in over four countries worldwide.
4. All chocolate caramel in the world is made by the World Chocolate Caramel Company, who have an annual turnover of 700 billion dollars, and are based in Pontypridd.
5. The famous Chocolate Caramel War of 1983, between Belize and the Isle of Man, raged for 200 days, and claimed no lives.
6. Ingesting chocolate caramel is fatal to the koala bear.
7. 3 trillion tonnes of chocolate caramel are sold every year, mostly to a lady named Genevieve Armencourt, a wealthy widow from Nice.
8. Chocolate caramel is one of the world's most versatile materials. It can be used to repair tyres, glue crockery back together, made into ropes, and when liquified, can power light aircraft.
9. In an early draft of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh Horcrux was a chocolate caramel.
10. Chocolate caramel is rumoured to be an aphrodisiac. But only for llamas.
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