FALLING firmly into the "only in America" category comes the results of a new survey which finds a surprising number of US citizens think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
The Innovation Center of US Dairy polled 1,000 adults aged 18 and over earlier this year, with 48% of respondents saying they were unsure about the origin of chocolate milk.
About 7% thought it came only from brown cows.
Authors of a report on the study said extrapolating the results implies that about 1.64 million Americans were unaware that it was a manufactured product using normal milk and cocoa.
Just in time for the annual Oktoberfest beer festival, a German court has ruled that hangovers can be formally classified as an "illness".
The Frankfurt case involved a company selling anti-hangover remedies, which was taken to court by someone claiming the products were making illegal health claims.
The magistrates said "by an illness, one should understand even small or temporary disruptions to the normal state or normal activity of the body".
They said that included the tiredness, nausea and headaches associated with having a few too many drinks, which the makers of the remedy claimed its products could cure.
They also noted that doctors had coined the word "veisalgia" as a specialist medical term for the condition.
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