# Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580 "2014-04-21T03:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 232
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4621 "2015-07-17T16:37:09Z")
The labeling of some products with the phrase “Shake Before Using” resulted in 247,000 ER visits between its inception in 1952 until late 1954, when the words “The Bottle, Stupid” were added. Product sales plummeted as a result of the new wording, and a series of PSAs were released to educate the public on how not to be an idiot. Following that education campaign, manufacturers reverted to the original wording. ER visits dropped by 2%, which was within the margin of error. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4622 "2015-07-17T16:49:33Z")
In 1952, General Foods introduced _Shake N Bake Ravioli_, which led to 124,042 ER visits involving shrapnel injuries from exploding pasta. The product was immediately recalled, and General Foods did not pursue the product line until 1964, when they quietly placed _Shake N Bake_ for chicken in select grocery stores. When no injuries resulted, an all-out campaign was launched in 1965. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4623 "2015-07-17T17:52:07Z")
Less successful products that premiered around the same time as Shake n Bake include _Chitlin’ Helper_, _I Can’t Believe It’s Not Alcoholic!_, _Lutefisk Helper_, and _Squid Newtons_. ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4624 "2015-07-17T18:37:01Z")
The so-called Titanic Squid is actually an octopus, and well-deserving of its name as [this slightly touched-up photograph shows.](http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/lancasteronline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/bb/0bbc3946-e1d8-11e3-9c5e-001a4bcf6878/537e367c8b3cd.image.jpg) The titan in the photo could have taken down the Golden Gate Bridge in this 1944 episode. It is fortunate that there were two modern battleships under steam in the area, since several 16" gun salvos were needed to kill the beast. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4625 "2015-07-17T18:41:57Z")
After the Titanic Squid was killed in 1944, it’s head was installed as a [tourist attraction](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/photos/000/753/75355.ngsversion.ac441543cf78a7b44774a975080ebb02.adapt.768.1.jpg)at the Monterey Bay Outdoor Aquarium. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4626 "2015-07-17T19:45:44Z")
If a Giant Squid’s tentacles are cut off, all ten of its tentacles will grow into new Giant Squids. Plus the original squid will be really annoyed at you. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4627 "2015-07-17T20:07:45Z")
Annoyed squids produce twice the ink of regular calm squids, according to _Bic_. Therefore, the popular pen company employs hundreds whose sole job is to irk the captive squids in order to meet the ballpoint pen manufacturers needs. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4628 "2015-07-18T15:59:31Z")
Drinking the ink from the rare 39 tentacle Purple Phartuccio squid will insure immortality. It also gives men a permanent erection. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4629 "2015-07-18T16:10:35Z")
The first men to use Purple Phartuccio squid ink were the Italians in the 1170s, notably the famed architect Bananno Pisano who designed the \*Torre del Pene \*in honor of his erection. The name of the structure was later changed to the \*Torre di Pisa \*when an Italian restaurant opened on the first floor. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4630 "2015-07-21T02:21:38Z")
The first pizza pie was made in, and named for, Pisa. The original spelling–piza–has baffled linguists for centuries and was made even worse when Noah Webster was challenged at a Scrabble game: “There aren’t two 'z’s in ‘pizza.’” “There are now.” ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4631 "2015-07-21T03:00:31Z")
The original Noah of the Bible spelled his name “Noewuh.” However, that spelling is no longer used by anyone and is considered to be arkhaic. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4632 "2015-07-21T11:29:40Z")
The preferred modern spelling of “Noah” is “Utnapishtim”. He is considered to be the first of the Phartuccios. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4633 "2015-07-21T13:05:01Z")
\*Utnapishtim Grapejellisquirtouticus \*is the Latin name for the Purple Phartuccio Squid. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4634 "2015-07-21T21:21:12Z")
Stepping on the Purple Phartuccio Squid will produce a lovely farting rendition of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4635 "2015-07-22T04:27:20Z")
Purple Phartuccio Squid have no natural enemies except Lombardy Pudding Elk, but only when the European dessert ungulates are fitted with scuba gear and trained to attack them. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4636 "2015-07-22T15:08:56Z")
The traditional method of attacking a Purple Phartuccio Squid is with a sharpened banana. Fortunately, there is a chain of self-defense schools in existence whose whole purpose is teaching its students in defending against various fruits. Reviews are mixed. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4637 "2015-07-22T17:18:58Z")
Bananas have twice as much sodium as a serving of Pringle’s Extra Salty potato chips, three times as much vitamin C as a pound of Chipotle guacamole, and eight times as much tungsten as a glass of New Coke. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4638 "2015-07-22T18:42:17Z")
The secret ingredient in the New Coke recipe is a little-known trace element called “Phartuchium”, assigned element number 2??, as nobody is really sure if it’s an actual element, or if Serbian chemical analyst Biograd Phartuccio sneezed while loading the centrifuge. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4639 "2015-07-22T21:15:40Z")
Nobody is sure whether the Lavender Phartuccio Squid, only found in Serbia, is a mutant or a hoax created by well known trickster Biograd “Tricky Dick” Phartuccio. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4640 "2015-07-22T21:27:03Z")
The only verified mutant of the Purple Phartuccio Squid is the extremely rare and endangered Chuckles Phart Squid, believed to have originated when a Purple Phartuccio Squid was stolen and illegally bred to a squash. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=231) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=233)