Article: 101 TASTY FACTS THAT TAKE SOME LICKING!; I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream - and in August we buy more of it than in any other month. PAT MOORE scoops up 101 cool facts about Britain's favourite treat...(Features)

Ice cream IS a turn on. The part of the brain which is switched on during love making is also activated when you eat ice cream.

Ice cream comes from China's Tang period (AD 618-97) and was based on buffalo milk, flour and camphor.

Ice cream took hold in Europe when Marco Polo brought the Chinese recipe to Venice in 1292.

In Britain, we spend pounds 32 a SECOND on ice cream.

Vanilla's the most popular flavour. It is chosen nine times out of ten.

Flavours now available include garlic and lobster.

The top three favourite ...

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