• Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2 minutes

    This kind of shit that was so common before the Internet. Encyclopedias would have completely wrong information or would cite just one source that was outdated.

    The way Wikipedia does stuff is so much better.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2 hours

    idk whats Snapple but this was interesting to read

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    7 hours

    The average human will eat an average of eight spiders a year while asleep.

    is false. 2 things about that are great: That it is false, and that i now know who circulated this bullshit lol

    • Albbi@piefed.caEnglish
      5 hours

      It says average. Jimmy Spider-Snacker developed narcoleptic sleep eating and really affected the mean.

      • turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish
        2 hours

        If you sleep-eat a spider egg sack as they’re hatching, that really ups the numbers too

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 hours

      Spiders, of course, being notorious for liking small dark moist places devoid of the things they eat…

      It’s weird to me that anybody ever believed that one.

    • kambusha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6 hours

      Would you like something to drink? We have water, milk, juice, spiders, Dr Pepper…

  • Danarchy@lemmy.nzEnglish
    4 hours

    Snapple sat on a throne of lies (the throne was also a lie)

    • [email protected]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 hours

      caller id is illegal in California

      There is no law against Caller ID in the state, though there were lengthy debates about making it illegal in the early 1990s.

      I genuinely cannot remember or understand why this was a debate. How much money were call centers throwing at politicians?

      • imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7 hours

        It doesn’t look like it was a lobbying thing. More a pro privacy thing. A ton of Californians had unlisted numbers and didn’t want to be revealed, or victims could be tracked by their abusers through caller ID, and privacy advocates said that people shouldn’t have their number public without their consent.

        but they couldn’t figure out how to regulate it properly, so the issue was eventually dropped.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8 hours

    When I was a curious teenager I put my wiener in the mouth of a Snapple bottle, and then flew into a panic when it expanded and the bottle got stuck.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 hours

    TIL Snapple apparently still exists. I haven’t seen Snapple since the early 90s.

    • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      Huh. TIL it left at least one place. What part of the world are you in?

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 hours

            It isn’t a big thing in the Southast U.S. I used to get reminded of it every time I flew into JFK or got a dollar slice somewhere in NYC. It seemed many of them used to have a fridge that was just Snapple or water, but it’s been years since I’ve been up there. I doubt dollar slices even exist now : /

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6 hours

    I just wish they’d bring back their root beer. Man, that shit was good.