You Can't Make This Stuff Up! - Page 376

Lee Stewart · #**3751** 12-13-2018, 10:23 AM

Spiders are older than dinosaurs: They have been around for 300 million years

Lee Stewart · #**3752** 12-13-2018, 10:37 AM

Women are more likely than men to pull their Oreo cookies apart before eating them.

Lee Stewart · #**3753** 12-13-2018, 10:41 AM

The dual popsicle was introduced during the Great Depression so that children could split the treat with a friend at the same cost as one popsicle

Lee Stewart · #**3754** 12-13-2018, 10:44 AM

Only black licorice actually contains any licorice extract. The other flavors are "licorice-type" candy

Lee Stewart · #**3755** 12-13-2018, 10:46 AM

The creamy middle of a Twinkie is not cream at all but mostly Crisco, which is vegetable shortening

Lee Stewart · #**3756** 12-13-2018, 10:50 AM

Corn dextrin, a common thickener used in junk food, is also the glue on envelopes and postage stamps

Lee Stewart · #**3757** 12-13-2018, 10:53 AM

A dentist invented cotton candy in 1897. Originally, it was called Fairy Floss

Lee Stewart · #**3758** 12-13-2018, 11:08 AM

Green olives come in a myriad of sizes: small, medium, large, extra large, giant, jumbo, colossal, super colossal, mammoth and super mammoth. Sizes are determined by how many make up a kilo in weight. Small = 340/360 per kilo while Super Mammoth = 60 /70

Lee Stewart · #**3759** 12-13-2018, 11:18 AM

Do you recognize this fish? You have probably eaten it many times. 60 years ago it appeared on the menu as Dolphin. But due to the popularity of a 1960s TV show called FLIPPER the name was changed to . . . . Mahi Mahi. It's been that name ever since. But it is a Dolphinfish.

Lee Stewart · #**3760** 12-13-2018, 11:23 AM

The Mega-piranha was a prehistoric fish with the world’s strongest bite - about 3 feet long and weighing approx. 40 pounds. They lived about 10 million years ago. Wiped out by the Ice Age