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What are unusual facts about olives?

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Olives appeared in one of the first cookbooks ever discovered written by a Roman named Apicius. Carvings of olives appear on Egyptian tombs. Traditional Chinese Medicine uses olive soup as a sore throat recipe. For thousands of years the olive branch meant peace and goodwill.

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