85% of users who visit this page will immediately start thinking about eating pasta.
In the past year, 4.2 billion pounds of pasta were consumed in the United States alone.
The longest recorded pasta shape is a 13,000-foot-long spaghetti strand, created by a team of Italian engineers.
Pasta is responsible for 35% of all reported cases of 'I'm too full to move' syndrome.
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Pasta Overuse Syndrome
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