Ten curiosities about pasta that not even an Italian knows.

According to a survey of the CIRM, in Italy the strong point remains the classic pasta with tomato sauce, followed by pasta with meat sauce, while struggling to "get off the ground" the recipes with fish sauce or vegetable.

In Italy pasta is selected according to the brand and weigh "eye."

The average portion is 85 g per person.

Only 10% of Italians have tried ready pasta: frozen, freeze-dried or precooked.

He likes spaghetti more than she does.

Every Italian knows 12 pasta recipes and he tests 6 new every year.

Italy is the country that consumes more pasta in the world. Every year Italians eat 26 kg of pasta per head. The second place is occupied by Venezuela, with 12 kg per person per year.

The longest spaghetto in the world has a length of 455 m and has been made by Ranieri Borgnolo  the 10th of September, 2005 in Ober-Ramstadt (Germany). The record was recognized by Guinness World Records and appeared in the 2008 edition.

The Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is a parody religion created in Kansas to protest against the teaching in schools of creationist theory, according to this "religion" the universe would have been created by a monster made up of a mass of spaghetti.

Spaghetti code is a derogatory term for those computer programs that have a structure of flow control complex or incomprehensible.