The Thunder Down Under
True or False: You can actually buy a pill that claims to make your farts smell like chocolate.
It's True!!
Frenchman Christian Poincheval sells fart pills that supposedly make your gas smell like chocolate, rose, or ginger.
True or False: The tallest sandcastle ever made was over 57 feet high.
True!!!
In Binz, Germany, it took a team of 12 sculptors and 8 technicians 3.5 weeks working 8 hours a day to complete the sandcastle, 57 ft. 11 inches.
True or False: Up until around 1910, it was totally common for little boys to wear dresses until they were around 5 or 6.
True!!!
It appears the original decision for little boys to wear dresses was a practical choice to make it easier to wear a diaper.
True or False: Rats' tails help keep them cool.
True!!!
Rats don’t sweat like humans, or pant to relieve the heat like a dog. Rather, rats control their body temperature by expanding and contracting the blood vessels in their tails.
True or False: Because it is so hot there, Egyptians eat more ice cream than any other country.
False!!
We in the United States eat the most ice cream in the world. In the US, a person consumes 48 pints of ice cream per year.
True or False: It's possible that farting can be a profession or job.
True!!!
A performer named Mr. Methane calls himself the world’s top farter. He farts the tunes to well-known pieces of music.
Surfing was invented in _______?
Was it Hawaii, California, or Kansas??
Hawaii
True or False: According to a legend in Iceland, if you don't get new clothes on Christmas you will be eaten by a giant cat
True!!!
True or False: Rats can not laugh.
False!!
When rats play, they experience a type of joy. The result? They laugh, albeit not a hearty chuckle --- but a laugh.
True or False: Chocolate is the most popular flavor of ice cream.
False
The most popular flavor of ice cream is vanilla. After it come chocolates, strawberry, cookies n’ cream, and others.
The average human being farts how many times a day: 5 farts, 9 farts, or 14 farts a day?
14 times a day,
whether it's alone or in front of other humans
True or False: Beaches can come in many different colors, such as white, gray, yellow, brown, red and black.
True!!
It depends on the type of sediment that makes up the sand.
True or False: Students who dress in purple clothes get better grades than any other students.
False
There is no proof of this, at all
True or False: Rats vomit or burp after eating every meal.
False!!
Rats can’t vomit or burp. In fact, they rarely even get heart burn because their stomach anatomy is so different.
True or False: In Tokyo, Japan, you can find ice cream flavored with octopus and cow tongue.
True!!!
In fact, you can also get shrimp- and horseflesh-flavored ice cream!!
What is the speed of farts? Is the speed......
About 3 miles per hour, or 7 miles per hour, or 24 miles per hour
Approximately 7 MPH!!
or about 10 feet per second
True or False: Turtles are more likely to lay their eggs on a clean beach than a beach filled with trash.
True!!
After “the world’s largest beach clean-up” at Mumbai’s Versova beach, turtles returned to lay eggs for the first time in 20 years.
True or False: Patients trust doctors more who wear white coats.
True!!!
True or False: Rats can be trained similarly to dogs.
True!!
Rats are easy to train and can be trained in a similar way to dogs because they love food, and will do anything for a tasty treat.
Philadelphia’s Little Baby’s Ice Cream store serves a strangely flavored ice cream. Is the flavor they serve
pizza or hamburger or taco?
Pizza-flavored ice cream
Whose farts smell worse: women's or men's?
Women's!!!
Female farts have a higher level of hydrogen sulfide than male farts and therefore, they’re smellier than dude farts.
Is it possible to steal a beach - yes or no?
YES!!!
In 2008, a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this very day.
People actually think they are stronger when wearing __________. Is it ...........
their favorite soccer team shirt
a Batman T-shirt
a Superman T-shirt
A Superman T-shirt
True or False: Rats are dangerous and are not useful for human beings at all.
False!!
Actually, rats are used by scientists in labs to fight diseases like tuberculosis, and they make areas safe to walk by sniffing out landmines in the ground.
True or False: Employees who work for Ben & Jerry's get paid in ice cream and not money.
False!!!
Ben & Jerry’s employees get to take 3 pints of ice cream home with them every day, but they also get paid in money.