Seven of the following statements are true:
The Pope won’t wear wingtip shoes
If you cook a chicken in a gallon of ginger ale you’ll never get the hiccups again
In Mexico City, it’s illegal to fart in a restaurant
In 2001, a lipstick case once owned by J. Edgar Hoover was secretly auctioned for $400,000 at Sotheby’s in New York City
Laundromats were invented by Al Capone
Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley used to mail the exact same birthday card to each other every year — they’d just cross the other one’s name out and send it back with a thousand dollar bill enclosed
More Ford Pintos exploded in 1975 than home runs were hit by Willie Mays
Google owns Area 51
The first ice cream truck had a real piano player on top
In Portland, if you’re over the age of eighty and driving a scooter, the bulk candy aisle at the grocery store is all you can eat
There is a real Voodoo spell that casts hot dog thumbs on husbands who play too many video games
There are more canals in Amsterdam than in Venice
Ladybugs eat meat
If you skydive through a nimbus cloud, it will temporarily slow your free fall by 40 mph
Nothing lasts longer than two men fighting over the last slice of ham
The Incas used toenails as tooth picks
If a standard lawnmower’s blade spun thirty percent faster, it would fly like a helicopter
Andre The Giant was only 6’8”
Forgiveness helps the aggrieved as much as the aggressor
A standard car airbag smells like pork chops when it deploys
A grizzly bear once jumped sixty feet, between the tops of two different redwood trees, in Yosemite National Park
The Bluesmobile had a 440 cubic-inch plant
The original draft of Catcher in the Rye was written by J.D. Salinger in two days, beating Sylvester Stallone’s first draft of First Blood by a full day
One of the first thousand cartons of Marlboro Reds had a $10,000 bill hidden inside. Roald Dahl stole the idea for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The New York City police department’s neighborhood video surveillance unit captures over 100,000 people picking their nose every day
Escargot was originally served as a practical joke
Checkpoint Charlie has a gift shop
Only one guy has ever wrestled a bull into submission during the festival of San Fermin in Pamplona
It costs more to make a shoe for the left foot
The city of Prague eats more beets annually than does the entire state of North Dakota and orders more purple underwear online than all the underwear ordered by the country of Switzerland
Bulls can hear dog whistles, but dogs can’t hear bullhorns
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