# Snapple "Real facts" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 30, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280 "2005-08-30T17:03:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/1 "2005-08-30T17:03:48Z")
[http://www.armenianteens.com/snapple\_facts.php](http://www.armenianteens.com/snapple_facts.php) Obviously #36 is bogus…any others? ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/2 "2005-08-30T17:10:47Z")
Pretty sure #1 has been disproven; number 31 too. And #165 looks to be a typo, but technically it’s incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/3 "2005-08-30T17:33:49Z")
#39 An ant’s smell is stronger then a dog’s Right before I bathe her, my dog smells pretty strong. Way stronger than an ant! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/4 "2005-08-30T17:35:53Z")
There’s all kinds of typos. My only comment: > [@](#): > > #53 The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime I don’t wear lipstick, so some poor dame out there has had to consume 12 lbs. worth. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/5 "2005-08-30T17:36:45Z")
#20, What about cauliflower? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/6 "2005-08-30T17:43:33Z")
[Q]#68 The longest one syllable word is “screeched”[/Q] false – “strengths” is the same length, and has the additional merit of only containing one vowel. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/7 "2005-08-30T17:45:36Z")
> [@](#): > > #20 Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower Cauliflower comes to mind as the obvious response, but it could be argued that it’s basically the same plant. However, an artichoke is also a flower, I believe. > [@](#): > > #77 No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times This has been done here before. Plus, it should read “can be folded _in half_ more than 7 times.” Looks like the standard fare of slightly surprising facts and rumor. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/8 "2005-08-30T17:49:59Z")
Yeah, #165 looks like a truncation of 147. #137 looks dubious to me, but who knows. #117 is busted - [Thornback rays](http://www.imagequest3d.com/pages/general/news/thornbackray/rayarticle.htm) turn their stomach’s inside out too. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/9 "2005-08-30T17:52:51Z")
> [@](#): > > #163 The first penny had the motto “Mind your own business” That must mean the first United States penny: Britain had earlier pennies which lacked that motto, > [@](#): > > #164 The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses The first vacuum existed long before horses existed, or indeed the Earth existed. Do they mean the first vacuum cleaner? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/10 "2005-08-30T17:57:32Z")
{QUOTE]#138 Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee #139 Hawaii is the only state with one school district [/QUOTE] Noting the lack of “U.S.” before “state” in #139, I would just point out that New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia are each only one school district. (Even if the term “school district” is not used in Australia.) ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/11 "2005-08-30T17:57:32Z")
> [@Snapple](#): > > #31 The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping An urban legend created for an urban legend study. This just shows how piss-poor these “facts” are. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/12 "2005-08-30T17:58:18Z")
> [@Genghis Bob](#): > > And #165 looks to be a typo, but technically it’s incorrect. Oh, I’ve gotten that one. It actually says, “Panama is the only country where you can see the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean and set over the Pacific Ocean.” I think they must mean from the same _place_, right? Surely there are places in Central or South America that you could drive from one coast to the other in 12 hours, aren’t there? And what about the southern tip of Argentina? Or is it the Anatarctic Ocean down there? I hate those things. I find them utterly infuriating, but ultimately they always leave me resenting the fact that I’ve wasted so much time thinking about a bottle cap. Cripes, I’ve probably invested several times more thought than whatever idiot came up with the “Facts” in the first place. Some excellent examples, from the neighborhood of #165: #162: The temperature of the Sun’s core (the hottest part of the Sun) is 15 million degrees **Centigrade** , or 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. #163: The motto is **Mind your business** , Not “Mind your own business.” The first one-cent coin (officially is no such US coin as the “penny.”) was called the “Fugio” cent, because it has a sundial on it to remind us that time flies, and was was designed by . . . well, I bet you can guess who! Benjamin Franklin. (Who else?) See? Isn’t that infuriating? Aren’t you unfuriated? They take two very cool bits of human knowledge and the screw them up for absolutely no freaking reason other than stupidity. STUPIDITY! Did they _insert_ errors just to be “cute”? “Cute”? In “quotes”? Just like “Facts”? Did they deliberately get them wrong, just to misinform idiots and make everyone else crazy? DAMMIT, I HATE. THEM. SO. MUCH. I’ve switched to Honest Tea, in case you’re wondering, and I feel much better. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/13 "2005-08-30T18:01:08Z")
#20 is bullshit. Ladies and gentlemen behold the [cauliflower](http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshelf/foods_view/1,1523,15,00.html) I mean come on the word flower is in the name for crying out loud. (I see on preview several of you beat me to the punch. Cruse you all!) #71 Big ugly is a creek in West Virginia, not a town [cite](http://www.wvcoalfield.com/big%20ugly.htm) Numbers 147 and 165 appear to be the same (165 is missing some words) and they are I believe both false. In Chile You have the Atlantic to the east, and the Pacific to the west. Since South America comes to a point there, there has to be some place where you can see the sun rise on one ocean and set on the other. Number 178 is also [wrong](http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story055.htm) . Off by 10 years and $0.50. Number 179. The Statue of Liberty is a lighthouse? I must have missed that memo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/14 "2005-08-30T18:19:24Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > Oh, I’ve gotten that one. It actually says, “Panama is the only country where you can see the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean and set over the Pacific Ocean.” I think they must mean from the same _place_, right? Surely there are places in Central or South America that you could drive from one coast to the other in 12 hours, aren’t there? And what about the southern tip of Argentina? Or is it the Anatarctic Ocean down there? I’d guess that it’s the only place where you can see the sun rise over the _Pacific_ and set over the _Atlantic_. If you count the bay that the Panama canal connects to at the northern end as the Atlantic, then there is an east-west span of maybe 40 km. On a hill in the middle on a clear day, you probably could see that. The [Wikipedia map](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Panamamap.png) I was using for this. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/15 "2005-08-30T18:21:16Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Numbers 147 and 165 appear to be the same (165 is missing some words) and they are I believe both false. In Chile You have the Atlantic to the east, and the Pacific to the west. Since South America comes to a point there, there has to be some place where you can see the sun rise on one ocean and set on the other. Certainly 165 is just a truncated 147. But #147 is actually good. Read it again. If the sun rises over the Pacific, then it’s the Pacific, not the Atlantic, that is to the east and the Atlantic, not the Pacific, that is to the west. That’s because of the “S” shape of the isthmus. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/16 "2005-08-30T18:22:50Z")
Beaten to it by the walrus!!! Darn you, **iamthewalrus(:3=**!!! Hey, at least I had the decency to give him a chance to go back and figure it out himself. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/17 "2005-08-30T18:34:43Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Hey, at least I had the decency to give him a chance to go back and figure it out himself. 😉 Sure, whatever makes you happy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/18 "2005-08-30T18:38:03Z")
> [@](#): > > #164 The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses Probably a garbled version of Otto van Guericke’s famous experiment. [http://physicsnt.clemson.edu/physdemo/cat/fluids/magdebur.htm](http://physicsnt.clemson.edu/physdemo/cat/fluids/magdebur.htm) > [@](#): > > These two pressure demonstrations illustrate the enormous force exerted by the atmosphere on an evacuated container. > > The first of these involves a pair of hemispheres which can be joined and evacuated. To evacuate the hemispheres it is necessary to unscrew the handle on one end. The surfaces which make the vacuum tight seal should be checked to see that they are clean and well lubricated with vacuum grease. It is instructive and amusing to allow the students to attempt to separate the two parts of the container after it has been evacuated. These hemispheres were first demonstrated in Magdeburg in 1654 by Otto Van Guericke who attached two teams of eight horses to them. The horses were unable to separate the hemispheres. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/19 "2005-08-30T18:38:21Z")
Another gem: > [@](#): > > #156 Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco But to what depth? I mean, that water could probably cover the entire continent, if you’re willing to accept an undetectably thin film of water. And I suspect that there was some cross-talk between numbers 151 and 152… The fastest tennis serve and the fastest bicyclist were the exact same speed? And 154 mph sounds awfully fast for a bike… Isn’t the record somewhere in the 60s? ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280/20 "2005-08-30T18:44:01Z")
Mosquitos have 47 teeth is on there twice. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snapple-real-facts/319280.md?page=2)