# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/101 "2003-10-01T23:04:40Z")
A CD spins clockwise, but a DVD spins counterclockwise. By the way, our local Ben and Jerry’s gives you free nuts or sprinkles for answering their daily trivia question, which they (at least sometimes) get from Snapple caps. The ignorance continues to propagate… ---
**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:** [October 1, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/102 "2003-10-01T23:58:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TJdude825 \* > \*\*A CD spins clockwise, but a DVD spins counterclockwise. > > \*\* But, it’s the opposite in the Southern hemisphere. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/103 "2003-10-02T00:56:50Z")
Contrary to popular belief, alligators do not roam the sewers of New York City. Those long things you see are actually submarines of unknown origin, possibly Bolivian in origin. [sub]Stolen from a 1974 _New Yorker_ article, quoted in Jan Harold Brunvand’s _The Vanishing Hitchhiker_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/104 "2003-10-02T01:02:11Z")
The main ingredient of Viagara is Mr Bubble™. The poem “Casey At The Bat” was actually written by Adolf Hitler. Despite all those “crank” phone calls, Prince Albert tobacco was _never_ sold in a can. It is availlable in jars and 55 gallon drums. You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish. The late guitarist George Harrison and President Benjamin Harrison had the same last name - AND they were both right-handed !! The Incas never had a word for “Chia Pet”. After a bloody and violent “after-concert riot”, Tony Orlando and Dawn are totally banned from performing on the Island of Malta ever again. Despite what Roger Miller said, you _can_ roller-skate in a buffalo herd. It is a popular children’s activity in several of the Western United States. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/105 "2003-10-02T01:05:43Z")
The best treatment for an accidental overdose of sleeping pills is a few stiff drinks and a good night’s sleep. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/106 "2003-10-02T01:33:28Z")
The Olive Garden’s $7.95 “All You Can Eat Pasta Promotion” was originally conceived by Gisele Bundchen. Speaking of Gisele, Even though canines and humans share over 650 million identical base pairs of DNA, Ms. Bunchen has never been seen urinating on a fire hydrant. Speaking of urine, Large doses of multi-vitamins cause dark/pungent urine in some people, excessive quantities of V8 cause red/tangy urine in others. Speaking of V8, The mysterious 8th vegetable isn’t watercress, (as widely believed), but is in fact purple yautia Speaking of Yautia, General Noriega once sent a basket of native-grown yautia to the White House. Upon receiving it, President Bush sent 13,000 troops to invade Panama because he mistook it for broccoli. Speaking of Broccoli, Eggplant is an Italian racial slur for Africans, broccoli is a Kurdish racial slur for Shiite Muslims. Speaking of Kurds, Mountain’s “Theme From An Imaginary Western” once topped the Kurdish Billboard Hot 100. Speaking of Mountain, Methadone, a synthetic opiate, could very well be a contributing factor to Leslie West’s girth. Has he opted to remain on heroin, odds are he’d be as slim as Gisele Bundchen. ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/107 "2003-10-02T02:00:43Z")
If you can touch your toes and you are a male, it means you are gay. Blind people have an increased ability to send telepathic messages to lemurs. This causes lemurs to become deranged and jump off cliffs. You’re going paranoid and everybody but you knows why. That tag on your mattress keeps the toxic fumes in. If you remove it, you will slowly inhale them every night and, after several years, appear to be aging. Stop signs got their octagonal shape from the Nazi’s original symbol. If we had kept up to date, you would be hitting your brakes every time you saw a swatstika! ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/108 "2003-10-02T02:15:34Z")
Despite popular belief, J.F.K was not in Marylin Monroe a week before his assassination. He was stuck in a bath tub. You will never find an adult male gorilla caring for it’s young. You know why? Because after mating, the female gorilla eats the male’s testacles, believing that this will let her absorb all of his knowledge. France does not exist. The term/concept of the picnic did not originate in America nor does it have anything to do with African Americans. It originated in Tenochtitlan and referred to the ancient Aztec priests’ custom of picking their ceremonial pants-or nickers (originally “Ni’Quaerz”)-before going out to sacrifice people from neighboring tribes. The priests ften made a big fuss about this ritual and consulted their wives who would throw baskets of food at them and say “Z’Quotl tin Hout’lic,” which, roughly translated, means “I know why a duck’s quack doesn’t echo! Why doesn’t anyone ask me?!” ---
**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:** [October 2, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/109 "2003-10-02T13:33:03Z")
Rupert Murdoch is a figment of our imaginations. No juggler has ever kept in time with E. F. Goldman’s “On The Mall”. If you can read this, you obviously will die. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/110 "2003-10-02T13:33:18Z")
Rupert Murdoch is a figment of our imaginations. No juggler has ever kept in time with E. F. Goldman’s “On The Mall”. If you can read this, you obviously will die. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/111 "2003-10-02T14:41:26Z")
The word “biceps” is singular. “Triceps” is plural, but “quadriceps” is singular. Commentator Rush Limbaugh was born Jules Kambaata Limbreau. The spork was invented by Lewis Carroll, who used it as a safe way of holding carpet tacks. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/112 "2003-10-02T15:28:12Z")
Wombats have no necks. Jeremy Mortimer invented an electric-powered banjo, but left it on the train on the way to the patent office. Excessive consumption of fruit-flavored sugar water may cause extreme gullibility. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/113 "2003-10-02T17:17:59Z")
It takes approximately 1,750,250 floppy disks to back-up the internet every night. Dogs were domesticated to control the cat population in Ancient Egypt. Astrology is less accurate today than it was 2,500 years ago because the stars have changed position. Yahoo Serious’s real name is Englebert Humperdink. Englebert Humperdink’s real name is Harry Peters. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/114 "2003-10-02T17:43:07Z")
One out of every two people can smell with their fingers. The first person with allergies also invented the shotgun. Some French perfumes are made from the butt of a Rhino. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/115 "2003-10-02T18:27:50Z")
> [@](#): > > It takes approximately 1,750,250 floppy disks to back-up the internet every night. I think you dropped a few zeros, there! 😉 > [@](#): > > Some French perfumes are made from the butt of a Rhino. And the ones that aren’t are the ones that smell _really bad_!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/116 "2003-10-02T21:32:02Z")
According to the US National Park Service bylaws, all coyotes are officially named “Leroy”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/117 "2003-10-02T21:45:02Z")
All cows are white at birth. Coloring patterns are tattooed onto the cow at an early age by the farmer for identification purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/118 "2003-10-02T21:47:32Z")
The inventor of the IUD also invented the electric can opener. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/119 "2003-10-02T22:08:46Z")
Fish are deaf. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760/120 "2003-10-03T03:07:02Z")
Orson Welles once ate 3 of Henry VIII’s 6 wives at one sitting. The rabbit would die instantly if he ever ate Trix. The Williamsbergs in Virginia and NYC are the same, no matter what anyone tells you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-send-snapple-some-more-fun-facts-for-their-bottle-tops/203760.md?page=7)