14 Fun Facts You've Never Heard Before
by N/A, 10 years ago |
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Trivia addicts will love these random and interesting facts.
1. Three Musketeers used to contain vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavor.
2. Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.
3. Calvin Klein's Obsession is used by animal researchers to lure them to cameras.
4. A woman once tried to sue the creators of Cap'n Crunch because the cereal doesn't contain actual berries.
5. Hunter S. Thompson wanted to know what it was like to write like F. Scott Fitzgerald, so he retyped The Great Gatsby in its entirety.
6. Ben and Jerry's flavors are extra rich because co-creator Ben Cohen has anosmia, a condition that leaves him without a sense of smell.
If we couldn't taste a flavor during testing, he'd just add more flavoring.
7. The inventors of bubble wrap were trying to make plastic wallpaper.
8. A village in Belgium once tried to train a group of 37 cats to deliver mail.
..it didn't work.
9. Some cats are allergic to people.
10. The cherry trees in Washington D.C. were a gift from Japan.
11. Victoria lilies can hold up to 70 pounds.
12. The Pet Shop boys were once asked to change their names to Rescue Shelter boys by PETA.
13. The creator of Netflix created the service after getting a $40 late fee for Apollo 13.
14. The Seven Dwarves were almost named Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Awful and Wheezy.
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