billyboy1963
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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia
In 1834, Dr. John Cooke Bennet added tomatoes to ketchup, which back in the day was made out of fish or mushrooms.
He alleged that his new ketchup would cure jaundice, rheumatoid arthritis, indigestion, and diarrhea, as they were packed with vitamins and antioxidants.
Since, as it turns out, the claims weren’t quite accurate, (shocker!) ketchup was no longer used as medicine by 1850.
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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia
$283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Rats and horses can’t vomit.
The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim.
There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
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billyboy1963
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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia
The longest TV ad of all time is 14 hours long.
Created by Old Spice for a product that supposedly “lasts forever,” the commercial features actor Terry Crews, among others, and is currently airing “for an eternity” online.
But since that’s not exactly possible on TV, a 14-hour version was put together and aired in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 8, 2018, earning the Guinness World Record for the longest TV ad ever.
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GMach1
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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia
If you remember blancmange and ice cream being advertised on television in commercials such as Angel Delight and Wall's Ice cream you might be surprised to learn that the advertisers used a little trick-as under the lights of a studio ice cream and blancmange would melt, so they used coloured mashed potato - which would explain why my mother could never get the Angel Delight to whip up to look like it did on the packet!
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(This post was last modified: 15-01-2020 21:06 by GMach1.)
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