Snapple is a brand of high-fructose corn syrup that prints dubious facts on the inside of their caps. Can you guess these Snapple "real" facts that are anything but real?
Snapple actual real fact #2: Real fact is redundant. Facts are real by definition. However, a high percentage of Snapple real facts are in fact not facts.
When I was an 8th grade, there was a substitute teacher in my civics class. I remember that he asked the class what the definition of a fact was, and the first kid he called on said it's something that can be proven to be true. And he said no, actually a fact is something that can be proven to be true or false, therefore there existed both true facts and false facts, and facts are distinguished from opinions, which are statements that cannot be proven true or false. I'm not sure if "real" and "true" mean the same thing here - could a statement be "real" but not true? Regardless, I still remember this substitute teacher's explanation many years later.
Ideally a fact is something that's "true", whatever that really means. Humans can't agree on what's true or not. I suppose he had a slight point if he was trying to explain disagreements.
Snapple actual real fact: Snapple was promoted on the Donald Trump reality show 'Celebrity Apprentice' where contestants had to create new flavors of the drink. The winner was Bret Michaels with 'Trop-A-Rocca.' Nothing says healthy to consume like made up names for artificial flavors.
I admit that the cable cars one threw me. I couldn't imagine any other national monuments that could be mobile, until I found out that the cable cars aren't actually a national monument. It's listed on the national register of historic landmarks, but it's definitely not the only one of those that's mobile (many ships are on the list).
actually wait no i guess the white things on the outside aren't actually seeds so ig this isn't a fact. So cpgatbyu ur kind of correct, though i do feel like this is only a small distinction.
I believe that by some measurements like surface area or something like that, lake superior is the largest lake in the world. however, by volume or depth, lake baikal is larger. so in a way that one is sort of partially correct
The Caspian Sea one is debatable, and I wouldn't have put it on this quiz if it weren't for Snapple Real Fact #229: "The Caspian Sea is actually a lake".
Many of these just seem completely bizarre that anyone would ever believe them. One or two others I think I've repeated myself before... one I just looked up to make sure it was wrong. I guess I was taken in by my beverage cap.
I used to loooove Snapple as a kid. Any time my family went on a trip longer than 2 or 3 hours, I'd buy one for the road. I used to even collect the caps! I guess I really never thought about just how absurd and misleading (if not outright wrong) these facts are until now. Even then, like kal said some of these seem weird enough to be real.
Thinking of the Karate Kid, I tried bonsai - or whatever the tree trimming art is - not the ultimate name, purpose, and idea of the movie, karate. Wow.
🎶 “I know an old lady who swallowed a cat: think of that – to swallow a cat! She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, but I don't know why she swallowed the fly. …Perhaps she'll die.”
everything's a chemical, you're fingers you used to type this are chemicals, the pixels appearing as you type are chemicals, even pure water we all drink is a chemical. Chemicals are literally just substances with a chemical formula, which encompasses literally everything ever except for maybe subatomic particles.
I went round a banana plantation in St Lucia and the guide described bananas as being herbs. Checking on Wiki and we find that the banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant, indicating that in this case, the snapple cap may have been correct. So while the edible bit of the plant (the banana) is correctly described as a fruit, the plant as a whole is actually a herb. A banana plant has no woody parts growing above ground - the 'trunk' is not a trunk, but a stem. This satisfies another 'herb' characteristic.
Taking a brief respite from my self-imposed comment ban to say: while it is not technically impossible to fold a piece of paper more than 7 times, it is extremely difficult, and while this is hard to even comprehend if you do the math it checks out: fold a standard piece of paper in half 103 times and how thick do you think it would be? If you answered anything other than 93 billion light years, a.k.a. the width of the observable universe, you are incorrect.
I love the spiders fact because there is no way on earth scientists could actually discover this and connect an accurate number to it, yet I've heard it so often
The annoying thing about a few of these being "false" is that the majority of the fact is true and it's just a slight difference to the correct answer, however it doesn't always hinder your answers.
Love your description of Snapple, but is there a bigger fish out there than a whale shark? I have known this to be true for decades, and have seen it confirmed on countless documentaries as well.
Of course a duck's call makes an echo. This is because, like most sounds, it bounces off every surface, creating a reverberation. It's pigeons that don't make an echo: their call doesn't bounce off surfaces. The reason is a coo sticks.
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