# Let's send Snapple some more "Fun Facts" for their bottle tops. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760 "2003-09-25T15:02:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/41 "2003-09-26T01:19:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marine\_One \* > \*\*Vikings discovered a number system based on screaming. \*\* I howled with laughter at this one. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/42 "2003-09-26T03:00:07Z")
The inside of your eyelid is covered with an extremely fine hair. Whenever you “get something” in your eye, it’s usually a one of those hairs coming loose. The city of Houston, Texas was once situated in the location of Friendswood, Texas. A flood in 1877 moved the city hall some 30 miles up the Brazos River. Rather than rebuild, they just repaired the city hall building where the flood moved it and declared that was where the city is. Wewoka, Oklahoma is the backstory hometown of the Wookie from _Star Wars_. On _Sesame Street_, the characters of Bert and Ernie are based the cop and cab driver from _It’s A Wonderful Life_ and are straight. The character Cookie Monstre, though, was original written as a flaming homosexual, which explains his “queer eyes.” Flan was originally made from chihuahua fur and urine. Now, it is usually made from spider’s eggs and dill pickle brine, with artificial flavouring. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/43 "2003-09-26T10:47:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by h.sapiens \* > In Sweden, it is illegal to shake hands with someone of the opposite sex on a Thursday. True, but you’re allowed to do it using your left hands. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/44 "2003-09-26T12:34:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rock Altoid \* > \*\*the dubious claim of “In one average silver earring, there is enough energy to light the entire city of Bumfuck, USA, for a span of three and a half years, which is coincidentally the time span that one can continuously blow a trumpet before automatically transforming into a trumpet-playing duck.” \*\* The first half sounds about right, for a large earring and a small city. Of course, you can’t get it most of it out without an equivalent mass of antimtter, or there’d be a bigger market for silver earrings 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/45 "2003-09-26T13:00:21Z")
George Clinton is the longest-serving Prime Minister in world history, serving from 1969 to 1983, 1987 to 1988, and from 1991 to 1997. Cecil Adams preferes to be addressed as Harry Skoras, and only the Attorney General knows why. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/46 "2003-09-26T13:06:07Z")
Smiling supresses the gag reflex. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/47 "2003-09-26T13:23:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*Contrary to popular myth, a wood chuck can’t actually chuck anything. \*\* I may have to [ZOT](http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle) you for this one! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/48 "2003-09-26T13:29:26Z")
No one has ever drowned in the canal connecting Milwaukee with Sacramento. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/49 "2003-09-26T13:40:33Z")
In 1934, a team of 14 Canadian Boy Scouts was swept over the Niagra Falls. All survived. “Atacama” is the longest word to contain three letter As. In England, it is illegal for anyone but the aristocracy to own stocks and shares.\* A puffin and a penguin are actually the same bird - the name depends on whether they’re in the northern or the southern hemisphere. A leopard does not actually have any spots. The only word officially allowed to be sung in competition by the Swiss Yodelling Society is “Jödelai”, which is the name of the founder’s wife. Fungus was first discovered in Botswana. \*This was a real GQ last week! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/50 "2003-09-26T14:01:30Z")
Would it be counter the spirit of “fighting ignorance” for me to compile some of the more believable ones here into a glurge email and see how long it takes for them to get back to GQ? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/51 "2003-09-26T14:50:30Z")
_Waffle Stompers_ were preceeded by three miserable years with the _Pancakers_. Inhaling through a flute is one way to attract butterflies. Most of the barley and hopps used by Trappist Monks are provided by a Topeka nunnery. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/52 "2003-09-26T15:12:39Z")
Do it, **jjiimm**! I’ll help distribute it. My e-mail address is in my profile. The number 7’s “lucky” status was nonexistant until Disney’s _Snow White_. The previous (and real) lucky number was 9. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/53 "2003-09-26T15:24:43Z")
The number 13 became an “unlucky number” relatively recently, when an unknown joker in the 19th century made up the word “triskadecaphobia”. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/54 "2003-09-26T15:37:09Z")
Famous left-handed Renaissance artist/scientist Leonardo DaVinci was, in reality, a right-handed woman. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/55 "2003-09-26T15:38:47Z")
Winston Churchill, Honus Wagner, and Isadora Duncan were all born with fully-functioning gills. The first Roller Disco was opened in Italy in 1215 by Pope Innocent III. “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” was the original code phrase for the Normandy landings. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/56 "2003-09-26T17:33:46Z")
The hit “Survivor” reality-TV series started as a drunken dare from one studio executive to another. Despite having about a million pairs of shoes, Imelda Marcos typically walked around wearing nondescript flip-flops. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/57 "2003-09-26T17:35:13Z")
Kentucky Fried Chicken changed their name to KFC because they don’t actually serve chicken anymore, it’s processed genetic material. I know some people really believe that. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/58 "2003-09-26T19:50:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \* > **Kentucky Fried Chicken changed their name to KFC because they don’t actually serve chicken anymore, it’s processed genetic material.** Snopes has [the **real** story](http://www.snopes.com/lost/kfc.htm) about KFC’s name change. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/59 "2003-09-26T20:05:33Z")
The yellow liquid they put on movie popcorn is actually melted yellow Crayola crayons. If you ask nice, they will use other color crayons. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/60 "2003-09-26T20:20:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scuba\_Ben \* > \*\*Snopes has [the **real** story](http://www.snopes.com/lost/kfc.htm) about KFC’s name change. \*\* Man, that Snopes story about KFC was [great](http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.htm)!! Some more great facts from those Snopes guys: [ul] [li]Mr. Ed was a zebra![/li][li]The California flag was originally supposed to have a pear, but a misspelling changed history![/li][li]Edgar Rice Burroughs naming his celebrated apeman after the city he lived in![/li][li]The nursery rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ originated as a coded message used to recruit crew members for pirate ships. [/li][/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760.md?page=4)