Elvis last meal ice cream and cookies, 1. The new flavour was designed with the Marley family and consists of banana, caramel, cookies and chocolate. Proceeds go to charity.
2. The average American eats 26 litres (45.8 pints) of ice-cream a year.
3. Worldwide, around 15 billion litres (3.3 billion gallons) of ice-cream are consumed every year, enough to fill 5,000 Olympic swimming pools.
4. According to Nasa, ice-cream is among the top three items most missed by astronauts on space missions. The others are pizza and fizzy drinks.
5. Hawaii and Wisconsin are the only US states with laws governing ice-cream container size.
6. When Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield went into business as Ben & Jerry, they chose ice-cream as bagel-making equipment was too expensive.
7. The last thing Elvis Presley ate was four scoops of ice-cream and six chocolate chip cookies.
8. On June 13, 1789, George Washington became the first US president to eat ice-cream.
9. The earliest known reference to ice-cream in English was in 1672.
10. The world record for ice-cream eating is 1.75 US gallons (11.66 UK pints) in eight minutes.
